hillbilly elegy

Arts + Letters

July 11, 2018

Humiliation, Multiplication, and Ice Cream

In the memoir Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, the author describes a scene in first grade where six-year-old J.D. realizes…

Gradgrind’s is an education blog run by Tom Liam Lynch. A professor in New York City, Tom co-founded Babble Lab, a center for digital humanities pedagogy and research at Pace University, helped establish an international consortium of coding schools for refugees called Room 7, and is launching a nationwide initiative called CS4ELA to explore ways to embed computer science into K-12 English classes. His new collection of essays on education, technology, and teaching English is called Strata and Bones.

hillbilly elegy

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Humiliation, Multiplication, and Ice Cream

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