Fostering a Love for Writing
Over at Education Week, there’s a great interview with Laurie Halse Anderson about teaching writing in school. One point Anderson makes: “There are a number of corporations that have turned a tidy...
View Article#ButIt’saClassic
Confession: I hated Hamlet in high school. It wasn’t that I hated Shakespeare or English class. In fact, I tended to like most of what we read. But I found it hard to care about the original emo king...
View ArticleEthnic Studies Vanishing in Tuscon Schools
The Tucson Unified School District is losing books on ethnic studies, which even includes Shakespeare’s The Tempest. More importantly: “In a school district founded by a Mexican-American in which more...
View ArticleEarly Intervention and Inclusion for Students with Learning Disabilities
From PBS NewsHour, a very interesting look at keeping kids with learning disabilities engaged in education while not segregating them from peers without similar challenges. Very exciting to hear about...
View ArticleIf Only Computers Could Write Standardized Test Essays, Too
You know those essay questions on tests like the SATs or GREs? Turns out the ideal reader/scorer is a computer: “Turns out, though, that standardized test essays are so formulaic that test-scoring...
View ArticleLearn All the Things!
John Green talks about why education is awesome: I’d also add that even though you might not love everything you learn in school, you never know what bit of awesome information will touch you or come...
View ArticleHas The Catcher in the Rye Already Come of Age?
What does it take for a book to connect with teen readers, and can you teach those books in the classroom? At Slate, Jessica Roake says: “Young readers need a new coming-of-age classic, a book that has...
View ArticleCritical Reading With John Green
As part of the Crash Course, a great video by John Green on why we read critically: I know that in middle/high school, I also asked, “But did the author really mean for us to analyze all this?” I like...
View ArticleA Place for “Weak” Reading
The Hub has a great defense of “weak” YA fiction in the face of rising literary pressure from the Common Core and what this means to teen readers. Maria talks about why not all books need to be weighty...
View ArticleCollege Essay Questions and What Teens Know
When I was applying to colleges, one school’s essay about a specific choice I’d made that had significantly impacted my life or the life of someone else. My response boiled down to: “I’m 17. What...
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