Russ on Reading

This country was born of civil disobedience. From the moment a band of angry colonists threw the British tea into the harbor in 1773, civ...

The Cast of Shadows of War at South Camden Theatre Company Perhaps no city in America has suffered more from the steady decline of our u...

A Reading Hug Last week I had the great pleasure and opportunity to work with middle school students in the Clifton, NJ schools. My assi...

One day last week, I was tutoring three college juniors who aspire to be English teachers. In order to be allowed to student teach, these ...

Democracy? We don't need no  stinkin' democracy! Writing in the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Ohio Gadfly Online, Aaron Chu...

My new book, A Parent's Guide to Public Education in the 21st Century, is due to be released in about a week from Garn Press. The...

Nadya Miranda. the mother of the first grade child berated by her teacher in the infamous video published by the New York Times, has spoke...

My uncle was a dairy farmer in North Carolina. In the fifties, before automation hit the dairy industry, I used to watch him drag his old...

The vile video of Success Academy teacher, Charlotte Dial , berating a first grader for making a mistake on her math paper, reminds me of ...

On Friday, the New York Times ran an article and accompanying video showing a Success Academy teacher berating a young child, ripping up ...

I n the final chapter of the book, Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy, James V. Hoffman and P. David Pearson take a...

In many ways, I see the adoption of the Common Core State Standards as the ultimate victory of E. D. Hirsch and his idea of "cultural...