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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Military Vouchers: Choice Comes to Our Defense

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Inspired by Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, and her school choice agenda, Secretary of Defense James "Mad Dog" Mattis has d...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

School Choice: An Ugly Idea

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An ugly idea left unchallenged begins to turn the color of normal. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Some Choices Are Just Ugly The quote ...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

On Teaching Well: Five Lessons from Long Experience

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Today I turned 70 years old. I have no idea how this happened. I was going along, struggling to do the best I could and then suddenly I wo...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Building a Better Pre-School: Finding the Right Balance

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Two studies on building a better pre-school caught my eye this week. O n the front page of the Wednesday, May 31, 2017 New York Times , ed...
Friday, May 26, 2017

What Will We Do Without You, Jean Fritz?

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Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope  of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz I read of the passing of chi...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Finding Time for Productive Vocabulary Play

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Today I am pleased to present this guest post from Lesley Roessing, Director of the Coastal Savannah Writing Project and Senior Lecturer in...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Invented Spelling: Discovering How Words Work

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I was excited when my niece Jennifer shared this wonderful piece of writing by her daughter, Callie. It reminded me of the joy I would ta...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

An Onset-Rime Approach to Decoding for Struggling Readers

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I had the pleasure of spending some time with a group of dedicated elementary teachers in New Jersey this past week. The focus was on usin...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

School Choice: Addressing Safety in the Schools

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An article last week in the New York Times, noted that a recent study conducted for the US Department of Education found that student par...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Read Aloud in Middle and High School? Of Course

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Literacy blogger and distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Timothy Shanahan, is back with another po...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

What Kind of Knowledge Does a Teacher Need?

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I have one of those minds that is a treasure trove of useless information. My friends tell me I should go on Jeopardy!. I had a long unbea...