The Irascible Professor
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The Irascible Professor is an online journal (ezine, webzine) of commentary on issues relating to education in the United States. It began publication in 1999. While the majority of the commentaries published in The Irascible Professor address substantive issues in either K-12 education or higher education, the journal also occasionally publishes humorous articles on education and reviews of books on educational topics.
The journal accepts no advertising; nor does it accept support from corporate, union, or foundation sources.
Its International Standard Serial Number is 1527-3849.
[edit] Editor and publisher
The Irascible Professor's current editor and publisher is Dr. Mark H. Shapiro, Professor Emeritus of Physics at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). Dr. Shapiro has held both teaching and administrative positions at CSUF, and has served as program officer in the predecessor to the Education and Human Resources Directorate of the National Science Foundation.
[edit] Contributors
In addition to the commentaries written by the Editor and Publisher, the journal recently has published commentaries written by:
- Sanford Pinsker, the Shadek Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Franklin and Marshall College
- Peter Berger, an English teacher from Weathersfield, VT.
- Beverley C. Lucey, a college instructor and freelance writer from Arkansas.
- Felice Prager, a former English teacher and freelance writer from Arizona.
- Nils Clausson, Professor of English at the University of Regina.
- Erik M. (Mike) Grayson, an English Literature and composition instructor from New York.
- Tina Blue, a lecturer in English at the University of Kansas.
- Trish Gannon, owner and publisher of the Idaho panhandle newspaper The River Journal.
- Eric Eaton, a freelance writer and entymologist from Arizona.
- Jay C. Odaffer, an adjunct science professor at Manatee Community College.
- Herbert Jack Rotfeld, Professor of Marketing at Auburn University.
- Roberta Beach Jacobson, a freelance writer and former editor of Kafenio.
