CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – A Hamilton County parent is speaking out after learning her child’s class was assigned The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, saying she was not informed or asked for consent ...
Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...
Teachers College professor Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study For Teaching Reading curriculum was once used in hundreds of New York City public schools and thousands of elementary schools nationwide. A ...
Reading is, in some sense, the foundational act of most college learning: it is the place where our students come into contact with new concepts, new horizons, and unsettling ideas; where they find ...
US schools are increasingly replacing full-length novels with short excerpts in literature classes, a shift driven by falling reading proficiency, shorter attention spans and the pull of digital media ...