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Kids Don't Read Books in School (What, you didn't know?)
Okay, people, I want to tell you something that many of you don't know: kids don't read books in school. They read excerpts of books in state-adopted reading programs. I call this phenomenon Starving on Snacks. Entire books (full meals), read with the whole class, teacher-and-student lead discussion, getting to know characters, studying plot, ...
Posted to Culturebox by Angela Norton Tyler on December 19, 2008
Hello Goodbye, Melvyl and Bob Brass
You two really ''went to town'' or ''to the mat'' here in this string, didn't you? I came across Bob Brass posting much later, and trailed him back here. Bob is of high intelligence, got a good education, his Mom taught kids in New York City most if not all of her career, and Bob worked as an analyst of sorts for Uncle Sam. Melvyl is also an ...
Posted to The Dismal Science by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
Reading Rooms? Why not?
Though I discuss educational issues in my blog, I don't see any others which more important than this one: I would identify the single most important issue in education as the one most frequently over-looked: reading. As obvious as it may seem, the fact is that in most area schools, students are not provided with a place and time to simply ...
Posted to The Dismal Science by donjohn5 on July 21, 2008