teaching b/log

TEACHING B/LOG started out as a classroom teacher's journal/log with notes and comment on the politics of higher ed and learning outcomes assessment at a small liberal arts college. After several years on hiatus, it was revived in 2014 as a portal to updates and commentary on corporate school "reform," politics and the creation of a hereditary aristocracy in 21st-century America

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Rule of Law? Trump's MO hasn't changed in years

By far the best brief analysis I've seen of President Trump's strategy to stonewall the ongoing investigation into his financial pra...

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Letters to the Editor

A tip sheet I posted to the "Listen Up!" group on Facebook. Here's a working link to the National Education Association...

Sunday, June 25, 2017

"RULES OF ENGAGEMENT" -- trying to maintain civil discourse on my Facebook feed

Copied here from my Facebook feed for convenient reference -- i.e. so I don't have to do endless keyword searches to find it again -- an...

Friday, March 17, 2017

Important conversation between Robert Reich and William Kristol on Pres. Trump's brand of populism and American democracy

https://www.facebook.com/CommonCause/videos/vb.10803722213/10155336641992214/?type=2&theater&notif_t=live_video_share&notif_i...

Monday, December 19, 2016

Trickle-down economics: Worth 1,000 words

https://www.facebook.com/peter.ellertsen/posts/1783402261920812?pnref=story

Monday, December 05, 2016

Resistance 101

D R A F T Selected excerpts from stories on how to go about creating a resistance movement as Donald Trump takes office ... Dan Rather Fa...

Friday, December 02, 2016

Emails to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander and members of the Illinois delegation regarding ACA "replace and repeal" legislation

Posted today and yesterday to my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/peter.ellertsen/posts/1775596516034720?pnref=story in the hope i...

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About Me

Pete: I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.

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