Literacy in Leafstrewn

To Kill a Mockingbird is a required text for ninth grade at my school, but I have never had much success with it.  My students like the movi...

...is like growing up without eating.  Much of the reading instruction discussed in yesterday's New York Times article sounded like wha...

Today's paper of record has a front-page story about how much "easier" it is to improve student scores in math than in reading...

My department is about to spend a lot of money on three new projector carts.  I like projectors, but I wonder if it might be better to spend...

I have another little story about non-evidence-based BS.  I'm getting kind of tired of this topic, but I'm going to write it up anyw...

I'm busy, but this caught my eye, so I'll do it quickly.  It turns out that  low-salt diets are actually bad for you.   ...

Paul Krugman has a good piece in the NYRB discussing the ill-judged move, over the past few years in the west,  to "austerity"-- ...

Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post reports that Bill Gates has given over $150,000,000 to promote and develop curriculum for the CCSS. ...

In the curriculum materials developed by the Common Core authors' own company, there is very little time available for high-volume readi...