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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

The Hechinger Report

I taught basic English writing at two community colleges in New Mexico before I retired in 2019. Richard Leon Linfield has taught English, philosophy, world religions and film studies at nine colleges and universities, including the College of Santa Fe and Central New Mexico Community College. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. This is her third year in the profession.