President Obama keeps tab of what Sasha and Malia are reading, according to a report by pool reporter George Condon of CongressDaily about the president’s visit to a Maryland elementary school yesterday.
Here’s an excerpt:
He asked each kid what he or she was reading. One kid said "Diary of a Wimpy Kid." The president said, "Sasha and Malia loved that. They think it is hilarious."
In addition, the president told students at Viers Mill Elementary School that he had read the Harry Potter books with Malia and thought they were “pretty good.”
Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She was the author of the blog Learning the Language.
A version of this news article first appeared in the Curriculum Matters blog.
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