collection of interesting reads to provoke thought and provide fodder for conversation.
Don Pogreba is a current writer and retired teacher of English, Social Studies and Debate, and a loyal, if often sad, fan of the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers. When he is not traveling, he is working on his classroom web site or dreaming about another adventure.
collection of interesting reads to provoke thought and provide fodder for conversation.
The photo on the right was me six years ago. After years of failing to control my weight and pretending that I was going to do something about it, something clicked and I was able to shed weight rapidly and reasonably healthily. After a six-month diet (that extended to eighteen months) I lost a significant amount of weight, and more...
collection of interesting reads to provoke thought and provide fodder for conversation.
Mark Twain, who knew William Clark personally, said that “by his example he has so excused and so sweetened corruption that in Montana it no longer has an offensive smell.” With diabolical brilliance, Fritz married his knowledge of Butte’s geology with a pernicious mining law known as the Apex Rule. According to the Apex Rule, rights to...
collection of interesting reads to provoke thought and provide fodder for conversation.
Teton National Park Teton National Park Teton National Park Teton National Park Teton National Park
Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C. Washington D.C...
In spite of the professional pretense to neutrality, academics need to do more pedagogically than simply teach students how to be adept at forms of argumentation. Students need to argue and question, but they need much more from their educational experience. The pedagogy of argumentation in and of itself guarantees nothing but it is an...