EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools | Lost the plot: "Philip Pullman, the prizewinning children's author, argues that we are creating a generation that 'hates reading and feels nothing but hostility for literature' "

The Edge of Hip: Vice, the Brand: "All of which raises a question: if Vice spreads its brand of fashion, journalism and entertainment across the map, how hip can it remain? Will they still love it on Lafayette Street if it's at the mall in Massapequa? By definition, hip taste is embraced by hipsters because the masses don't get it — and can't buy it. (Nor should a hipster ever admit to being one; Mr. McInnes says hipsters are 'spoiled rotten.')"

For ENGL 90/IDST 50 Students: Art and Authenticity. Also see article about museums and "native" art.

How Teachers Can Stop Cheaters
"Unfortunately, there is nothing easier or more tempting to plagiarize than assignments that are exclusively detached and analytical. I'm sure that there are plenty of essays to be had over the Internet on Wordsworthian nature and Shakespearean eros. But you cannot buy your own opinion from someone else. If professors asked students not only for analysis, but also for personal reasoned responses, they would, I trust, get fewer purloined papers. Students would be more inclined to believe that the work had to be theirs — and that what they had to say actually mattered."

Information about ENGL 90/IDST 50 can be found at http://www.unc.edu/~xtc/engl90.htm.