Russ on Reading

In a post last week, I discussed what I called The College Remedial Course Hoax , which was critical of the system of remedial courses at ...

This post is adapted from my book, A Parent's Guide to Public Education in the 21st Century, now available in print and Kindle version...

This week the New York Times ran an editorial entitled Guess Who’s Taking Remedial Classes? In the editorial the Times cites a study by ...

Mark Twain famously said, "Write what you know." Very sound advice for a would be writer. When we are teaching children to write...

My colleague, Christine Bittner Agee, who runs the Parents and Educators Preparing OUR Children for the Future Facebook page, recently po...

As I write this, the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) apparently needs help. They have been unable to ...

Greetings from Raleigh, North Carolina where I am attending the 3 rd annual Network for Public Education (NPE) Conference. North Carol...

One sure sign that the Opt Out Movement is having an impact is the recent spate of increasingly hysterical defenses of the test from educ...

A few years ago when I was working with several groups of teachers on a new language arts curriculum for a K-12 school district, I provi...

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...