Dirty Boots: Education, Alabama, and the Need for Grassroots Effort

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. About two weeks ago, I was helping a student do some research on her senior thesis, which I assign in English 12, when our efforts led us to US News & World Report‘s state-by-state rankings on quality of life, published earlier this year. Scrolling down the webpage to find information related to her topic, we found that Alabama is #3 in the nation for… Read more Dirty Boots: Education, Alabama, and the Need for Grassroots Effort →