Please read: “The dreams of readers”
“The dreams of readers” Excerpt “Spermatic. There’s a word you don’t come across much anymore. Not only does it sound fusty and arcane, as if ...
Category: issues in education
What’s the best way to teach reading?
Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way? Why are so many educators ignoring settled research and brain science and doing their own thing instead? In “H...
Please read: “Our School,” by Lauren Markham
“Our School” is the best article on education that I’ve read in a very long time. Lauren Markham reports on the new curriculum in Alaska’s North Slope Borough S...
Please listen: “How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By Individual Choices,” featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones is my favorite journalist and my second-favorite famous person (after Bryan Stevenson). Here she is being interviewed by Terry Gross for Fre...
Please read: “The Making of an American Terrorist,” by Amanda Robb
This isn’t easy reading, but it’s important. In “The Making of an American Terrorist,” New Republic writer Amanda Robb interviews and reports on Robert Dear, wh...