All words belong to a word class. It’s that word’s type: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and exclamations. These are all word classes. Consider the ...

Emory University is investigating a white law school professor’s use of a derogatory word used to disparage African-Americans in a classroom discussion about a racial discrimination case. More than ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Duquesne University has placed an education professor on paid leave pending an investigation after ...

A teacher in Wisconsin has been placed on leave after a video of her emerged appearing to repeatedly use a racial slur in class. The teacher, who has not been identified, was recorded by one of her ...

We propose an account of linking patterns that does away with intermediary mechanisms such as thematic or actor/undergoer hierarchies. Instead, constraints on word classes, defined by both syntactic ...

A state arbitrator has blocked the dismissal of a tenured middle school teacher who allegedly used a racial epithet in class last winter, upon finding that he was “muttering to himself” and not ...

The University of Oklahoma admonished a professor after he tried to compare a popular putdown with a racial slur in a journalism class Tuesday. Peter Gade, who has been on the school's faculty since ...

Content Warning: The following opinion guest contribution includes quotations of a racial slur. For class on Thursday, Nov. 3, the students in VIS 321 were assigned to read poems from the Black artist ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.