![]() ![]() All of us who teach creative writing are doing it, in a sense, to support our writing, but it is also often at the expense of our writing. So there are these ways in which academia disciplines writing and I think of that as Creative Writing with a capital C and a capital W. If you are doing a PhD you have to support whatever the creative element is with a critical element. If you are doing an undergraduate degree you have to follow a particular curriculum and only about a quarter of that will be creative writing and the rest will be in the canon of English literature. You have to do supporting modules you have to be assessed. So you get credits for attending classes. It's a practice-based form of learning and teaching.īut because it is in academia there is all this paraphernalia that has to go with it. They are drawing upon their knowledge of what the problems are and how those problems might be tackled. So in teaching aspirant writers how to write they are drawing upon their own experience of working in that medium. I think most people in the UK who teach creative writing have come to it via writing - they are bona fide writers who publish poems and novels and play scripts and the like, and they have found some way of supporting that vocation through having a career in academia. I draw a distinction between writing, which is what writers do, and creative writing. The Browser: Creative writing is an academic discipline. The laws vary, but in general once a school has been on a state's list of underperforming schools for a specified period, a majority vote by parents and others specified by law can trigger the reform process. Today, across six states, parents of more than 14 million students can trigger the turnaround of their local school if it is failing. The first parent-trigger law was passed by California in 2010, with bipartisan support in a Democratic legislature. The movie is based on new "parent-trigger" laws, a very real policy solution that-depending on the state-gives parents and others the power to reform failing schools close them or, in some states, transform them into charter schools. Rather than acquiesce to the certainty of a subpar education for the children, they fight back-rallying other parents and teachers to the cause of wrestling control of their school from the local school board and putting it in the hands of devoted educators. The movie features Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis as a parent-and-teacher duo who team up to turn around a chronically failing public school. Bruno Manno: With Friday's release of "Won't Back Down," Hollywood has brought to theaters the real-life struggle of millions of parents. ![]()
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