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Vol.3 #1 is out! Subscribe for free.
October 15, 2009
Update: October 28, 2009
Dear Visitors,
We hope you find The Teacher's Voice experiment intriguing and valuable enough to stay with us as we move ahead. As we struggle here to decide whether or not to actually charge a few dollars a year for online subscriptions, we indeed have to move on. The decision can wait until 2012...if we are still here...
For now, we need to create a subscriber email listing that will help us limit our readership to young adult and adult readers, avoid spamming/fraudulent email issues, and make the greatest use of the few resources we have to promote the work.
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FALL UPDATE:
On October 7, we published Volume 3 #1: "Professor, did you think it would be like this?" This theme issue comes at a time when earnest educators, at all levels of our educational system, are extremely concerned about the nature of their profession and how American education is evolving. Robert Jensen does us a great service in his essay by unreservedly labeling the world "on the brink," offering his radical mission statement for public approval. William Astore, with many years of military and university teaching experience, examines education as a commodity at the expense of human and democratic interests and also calls for bold change. Between the works of these two professors is a short poem from another, G. Tod Slone; who has become an academic outcast, yet continues to strike out. How the following poets meld with and bounce off of these tone-setting opening pieces, how the collection works as a whole, you will decide, we are sure. Of course, we love it.
When you have some time, please spend some of it with the other writers and poets in this issue. If anything in Vol.3 #1 sparks a response that you would like to share with us and perhaps your fellow readers, click on the feedback link on the issue's entry page. We will be adding a reader response page and will always contact you for permission before posting anything.
A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
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A CALL FOR HELP:
We are always looking for creative volunteers who are willing to promote TTV in the their local areas and online. We also need college instructors and graduate students to read submissions. If you can help out in any way, please let us know. For more information, email us at theteachersvoice@aol.com.
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Best wishes in and out of school.
Peace,
Andrés Castro
Managing Editor
editor@the-teachers-voice.org
P.O. Box 150384
Kew Gardens, NY 11415
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