Does Reading Help Make Us Better People? Maybe
Just because we can't measure literature's benefits, does that mean they don't exist? Read Full Post >
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June 10, 2013
May 29, 2013
Testing Holiday for High Achievers Offered Under Texas Bill
Texas lawmakers have sent the governor a bill that would allow high-performing students to skip some of the state's reading and math tests. Read Full Post >
May 23, 2013
EdWeek Explores One District's Dive Into Common Core
EdWeek begins a four-part series on how the District of Columbia school system is putting the English/language arts standards into practice. Read Full Post >
May 23, 2013
Braille Summit Coming in June
The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped will convene its first major conference to explore the future of Braille. Read Full Post >
May 15, 2013
PD Program Targets Cross-Curricular Reading and Confidence
At an event in downtown Washington yesterday, panelists discussed a professional development program that brings reading and social/emotional learning together and according to several studies is having positive effects in both areas. Read Full Post >
May 01, 2013
Get to Know a C.E.O., with Michael Lombardo
We all know about the achievement gap between the rich and the poor, but we don't often acknowledge that schools do a particularly good job of educating kids when they have them. To close the achievement gap, we need the involvement of the community and more organizations like Reading Partners. Let's meet their CEO, Michael Lombardo. Read Full Post >
April 03, 2013
Ethnic Books a Blind Spot for Some Pre-K Teachers
A study of Tennessee pre-K teachers showed them hard-pressed to name stories with ethnic minorities in them, a Missouri professor writes. Read Full Post >
March 22, 2013
Graphic-Novel Research Reveals Resistance, Lessons
Research on teaching with graphic novels is a field of scholarship still in development. Several new papers study obstacles to comics in education through surveys, literature reviews, and classroom evidence. Read Full Post >
March 22, 2013
'Hypertext Narrative, Kinetic Poetry': Library of Congress to Highlight Electronic Literature
The Electronic Literature Showcase explores the confluence of art, writing, gaming, and technology. Read Full Post >
March 15, 2013
Math, Reading Gaps By Gender Persist, Global Study Finds
Achievement gaps persist by gender persist across the globe, a new study finds, with boys lagging in reading and girls lagging in math. Read Full Post >
