You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. But with a new semester approaching, Sheck isn’t sure where she stands at the New School. She’s ...

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 ...

Robert wrote to us with the following question about the word "class," and a great lead-in to its entry into the Glossary of Confusing Words: Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary lists the ...

A Pennsylvania professor is under school investigation after he was caught on video saying the N-word three times in a class. “When I was a young man, that was a very commonly used word. You know what ...

In the long run, there are important differences, mainly because the concepts and words people use affect their understanding of the world and ultimately the social forces that develop. In the short ...

Emory University has removed a law professor from the classroom as it investigates student reports that he used the N-word in a class discussion earlier this month. The professor, Paul Zwier, director ...

For the second time in less than a month, a Manitoba teacher is under investigation for using racist language in the classroom. A substitute teacher used a racial slur for Black people in a Niverville ...

The first thing to say is that there are various ways of referring to class. Often, when people talk about class, they talk in terms of cultural/sociological labels. For example, middle-class people ...