What students are reading this weekend
The epicenter of the Kindle Classroom Project has recently moved to San Francisco, where reading activity has skyrocketed, thanks to excellent English teachers...
Category: reading
Students are reading and reading
Encouraging students to read isn’t rocket science, but it takes a few important ingredients: (1) a strong and committed teacher, (2) kind and curious stu...
Why it matters that Mark Zuckerberg is reading books this year
Mark Zuckerberg is reading books this year. Every year, Mr. Zuckerberg makes a self-improvement goal. They’ve been varied — everything from wearing a tie...
The Kindle Classroom Project promotes reading. That’s great. But what if it promotes the death of the physical book?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about whether the Kindle Classroom Project is contributing in a small way to the death of print books and thereb...
Uh-oh: Here’s what a classroom library is not supposed to look like
Unfortunately, I see this all too often. What’s sad is that there are tons of great books here. But they’re in disarray, strewn about, all in crazy...