New Releases: Atypical Classroom Texts
Looking for a new classroom approaches and ideas that you can mull over this summer? These new releases might spark some ideas. Read Full Post >
All Blog Posts With literacy Tag or Category
May 06, 2013
April 12, 2013
Obama Budget Features New Plans for STEM, High Schools
President Obama's new budget request calls for creating new STEM education programs, as well as a High School Redesign initiative. Read Full Post >
April 05, 2013
Providence, R.I., Wins $5 Million to Improve Early Literacy
Providence, R.I., is implementing a $5 million plan to measure the ways in which families and caregivers talk to poor children, in hopes of improving literacy. Read Full Post >
March 28, 2013
Plotting Fiction In the Classroom With Interactive Maps
The newly launched site DC By the Book joins a collection of interactive maps of literature in cities, suggesting creative uses for literary mapping in the classroom. Read Full Post >
March 15, 2013
Business Roundtable Stages Competition for Education Funding
The Business Roundtable is staging a competition meant to financially support the expansion of "high-performing" K-12 programs. Read Full Post >
March 04, 2013
New X PRIZE Will Reward Literacy Solutions
The X PRIZE Foundation, an organization for incentivized competitions across science and technology development, will create a literacy prize in 2013. Read Full Post >
February 27, 2013
Disability, Literacy Groups Unite On Common Reading Goal
Having all children reading on grade level by third grade must include students with disabilities such as dyslexia, say organization leaders. Read Full Post >
February 12, 2013
Lead Equity Through Literacy in All Classrooms
Equal access to a good public education can be offered in every classroom through the development of literacy. Read Full Post >
February 05, 2013
New Book Releases: Literacy and Social Justice
New and recent books releases for K-12 educators tackle questions of student rights, social responsibility, and ethics both in and out of the classroom. Read Full Post >
January 31, 2013
Books by Students, With More on the Way
Thanks to self-publishing, community partnerships, and national media organizations' literacy advocacy, many avenues are now open for student writers to publish books. Read Full Post >
