Kar·a Bab·cock

/ˈkɑɹə ˈbæbˌkɑk/

noun

An inveterate reader.
A word goddess.
A force of nature.

Welcome to my personal site, including my blog of 17 years and links to my book reviews, podcasts, and other projects around the web.

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Recent Blog Posts

Why don’t you just teach in high school instead?

Published June 15, 2022

Whether or not I personally choose to stay in adult education, we need to change the way we think about it.

May 14

I believe in a politics of care

If you care at all about other people, you don’t vote Conservative. It is that simple.

May 06

To the bone

I can’t speak for the other teachers in your life, but I am not OK. You know why. But here is the whole story—for posterity?

Apr 26

Yes, I'm an educator who is political. Deal with it.

Calls from both ends of the political spectrum for education to be neutral, apolitical, etc., are fundamentally flawed. Here’s why.

Mar 27

Why I’m freelancing

I’m not leaving teaching, but I’ve had my moments. This is my attempt to breathe.

Recent Book Reviews

The Once and Future Witches

4 out of 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Published June 27, 2022

This was one of those cases of the cover truly attracting me while in my local indie bookshop. I hadn’t read anything by Alix E. Harrow previously, but the title, description, and cover sold me on The Once and Future Witches. And, given the climate of hostility towards women and people of marginalized genders in the United States in 2022, this book set in 1893 feels oddly, uncomfortably familiar.

Taking place from the spring…

Jun 24