sorry for the late update!

Here's your next blog post-- you'll have until Sunday to comment for 1 point. This article is about the sorry state of college writing! Is the author fair? Unfair? Can it really be all this bad? (From my own experience, it's not this bad. This guy's got some gems.) Discuss it.

http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/opinion/columns/michaelolesker/The_sad_sad_state_of_college_English.html

Extra Credit Post

Hi Classes, this one's available for 1 point of extra credit-- the topic was inspired by a classmate's post on a public blog, and this is an interesting issue in education today. Are the SATs necessary? Are they a fair measure of intelligence? Of potential?

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/long-live-the-sats/86574/

Totally unnecessary, unrequired post.

If you hadn't guessed from the title of this post, this is NOT the article you need to comment on for Monday. This article talks about Levitttown, PA ( built by the same family of builders/developers who made Levittown, NY, the "model suburb" I brought up in class) and its attitudes during the 2008 campaign and election. You do not need to comment on this article. However, since it relates to the article we discussed Friday, I thought some of you might be interested, and if you'd like to comment, I'll accept it for 5 points of extra credit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/weekinreview/09sokolove.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

The post you must comment on for Monday is the one before this one, labeled "Third Post."

Third post

Hi Class--
Great discussion so far! You've done a good job of stating your positions and defending them. Keep it up. Next topic: Talk Radio.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/11/08/the_rising_irrelevance_of_talk_radio/

Next Post: Urban Sprawl

Hi class,
I've seen your comments from the first post. Good job thus far! Here's your second article. So, what do you think?

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/can-we-uninvent-suburbia/?scp=2&sq=urban%20sprawl&st=cse