MLK’s ‘Missing Years’
Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s “missing” final years, questioning the capacity of our undergraduate graduates, and a new California law that allows cops to snoop our smart phones. These discoveries and more after the jump. On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities, Gross helped found the field of gay and lesbian studies. The links below open in a new window. Newer ones are on top. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s final years are mostly missing from the media’s coverage of his life King’s “missing years” include those during which he voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War and organized the Poor People’s Campaign. Are Undergraduates Actually Learning Anything? Drawing on survey responses and transcript data, researchers have concluded that a significant percentage of undergraduates are failing to develop the broad-based skills and knowledge they should be expected to master.
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MLK’s ‘Missing Years’
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on January 22, 2011. Filed under