Friday, April 28, 2017

Support for in-school independent reading

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Sent to Education Week,  April 29, 2017 It is satisfying to know that 94% of the teachers and principals interviewed by Scholastic agreed ...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Fake News: The other half of the tax plan

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The other half of the new tax plan Explaining that the recent proposal for federal taxes dealt only with payment, ...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

The power of reading, the power of libraries and the "summer slide"

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Letter to the editor, published in  Language Magazine Stephen Krashen May 2017 Language Magazine readers might be interested in a case...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

News from 1979 on the "fake reading" controversy in SSR

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Stephen Krashen There is a debate in the field about whether students in sustained silent reading programs spend...
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Monday, April 17, 2017

Why school librarians matter

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Sent to the Dallas Morning News, April 17. Re: 11 Dallas ISD schools are losing their librarians because of budget cuts, April 17, 2017 Are...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Don't know much about history

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Sent to USA Today During the last few weeks, Secretary of Housing Ben Carson said that slaves came to the US as immigrants, White House p...
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Reading: NOT heavy phonics, NOT memorizing spellings of thousands of words

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Sent to the Sydney Morning Herald, April 11 Prof. Anne Castle is quoted as saying that without heavy phonics instruction, readers have to m...
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