Improving Reading Skills Through Talking

Edutopia - Nina Parrish "As a former middle school special [...]

August 3rd, 2018|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, High School, Learning, Literacy, literature, Middle School, News, Reading, Reading Difficulties, School, Students, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Want to get struggling readers enthusiastic about reading? Here’s how

E-School News - Julia Ottesen "With 10 million students in [...]

August 2nd, 2018|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Books, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Reading, Reading Difficulties, School, Students, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Can Schools Commit Malpractice? It Depends

Education Next - Mark Dynarski "Recently seven students attending public [...]

July 30th, 2018|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Detroit, Education, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, Reading, School, Students, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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From bedtime stories to bribes: how to get your child reading more

The Guardian - Paula Cocozza "Summer is the perfect time [...]

July 28th, 2018|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Books, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, Parenting, Parents, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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‘Teachers are brain engineers’: UW study shows how intensive instruction changes brain circuitry in struggling readers

The University of Washington - Kim Eckart "The early years [...]

July 24th, 2018|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Books, Brain development, Brain development and Language, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Reading, School, Students, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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How Genrefication Makes School Libraries More Like Bookstores

KQED News Mind/Shift - Gail Cornwall "Under the Dewey Decimal [...]

July 23rd, 2018|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Books, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Fiction, Learning, Libraries, Literacy, literature, News, Reading, School, Students, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Only One Fourth-Grader at a California School Can Read at Grade Level. A New Lawsuit Claims the State Is Violating Students’ ‘Constitutional Right to Literacy’

The 74 Million - Esmeralda Fabián Romero "Is a school [...]

July 22nd, 2018|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, California, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, School, School Accountability, Students, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Big Bird and Elmo are taking Sesame Street into the classroom

The Christian Science Monitor - Sally Ho "Sesame Street is [...]

July 21st, 2018|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Early Education, Education, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, School, School Accountability, Students, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Borsuk: Literacy may not be a constitutional right, but it’s a life imperative

The Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel - Alan J. Borsuk "A federal [...]

July 19th, 2018|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, Reading, School, Students, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books

The Guardian - Alison Flood and Sian Cain "Robert Louis [...]

July 11th, 2018|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Books, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Literacy, literature, News, Parenting, Parents, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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