A Teacher's 'If' Poem for Her Students
In honor of National Poetry Month (and Friday .... whew, it's Friday!), we felt compelled to pass along a poem that a teacher sent to us. Read Full Post >
All Blog Posts With Language Arts Tag or Category
April 05, 2013
April 02, 2013
The Last Days of 'Whom'?
Language arts teachers take note: According to Atlantic staff writer Megan Garber, the dreaded "who/whom" distinction may soon be a thing of the past. Read Full Post >
March 28, 2013
The Transformative Power of a Classic Novel
Chinua Achebe's most famous novel, Things Fall Apart, a trenchant exploration of colonialism and culture, has long been staple of of high school and college reading lists. Read Full Post >
December 28, 2012
Debating the Common-Core Nonfiction Requirements
Educators dissect the language in the Common Core State Standards requiring teachers to assign more nonfiction texts. Read Full Post >
November 30, 2012
Friday Video Break: 'The Art of the Metaphor'
TEDEducation has been putting together some very cool short lesson videos combining animation with instruction by high-profile educators. Read Full Post >
August 27, 2012
Teaching Writing, Old-School
Continuing his search for answers to schools' writing-instruction problems, Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews profiles Rick Cannon, a renowned English teacher at an all-boys Catholic high school in Washington. For more than 30 years, Mathews reports, Cannon has been getting glowing r... Read Full Post >
August 15, 2012
Grammar Becomes Debateable
English teachers take note: Grammar—yes, grammar—has been making headlines this summer. Read Full Post >
July 24, 2012
Software Co. CEO Has 'Zero Tolerance' for Poor Grammar
Last month, we highlighted a story on the reported decline of grammar skills in the workplace. Now we can add Kyle Wiens, CEO of the online-repair-manual company iFixit, to the list of executives who believe this is not merely an academic issue. In a fiery post for the Harvard Business Review, Wie... Read Full Post >
July 15, 2012
Q&A: Hey, We Invented Blended Learning
After I described blended learning at a recent conference, Diana Frezza from Scholastic came up to me and said, "Hey, we invented blended learning with READ 180." Having seen a lot of READ 180 classrooms over the last 20 years, I knew it was a proven multi-modal reading intervention. But I wasn't up to date on READ 180 Next Generation so I called Scholastic president Margery Mayer. Read Full Post >
June 25, 2012
The Final Grade on 'To Pass or Not To Pass'
By guest blogger Colette Marie Bennett, author of "To Pass or Not to Pass? The End-of-Year Moral Dilemma" Two weeks ago, I composed a First Person piece that questioned whether I should pass or fail a student in my English II class who could meet many of the benchmarks but had failed to complete th... Read Full Post >
