The “Reading for Pleasure” high school elective course
Is this for real? This can’t be for real! There’s really a high school English teacher in Oklahoma whose full-time job is to teach a course called &...
Category: reading
When it comes to reading, more is more
Ted Sizer, founder of the Coalition of Essential Skills, believed that “less is more” — that teachers and schools should focus on depth rathe...
Kindle project starting up for students in Australia
The Kindle Classroom Project isn’t the only reading intervention program using e-readers. Over in Australia, a group has begun the Indigenous Reading Pro...
Read great articles about education at Iserotope Extras
Iserotope Extras is a hit. (Update: Extras is now The Highlighter.) Since its debut a few months ago, Iserotope Extras — where I share good articles that...
Book review: The Fault in Our Stars (★★☆☆)
I was supposed to like The Fault in Our Stars. I mean, it’s by John Green. It was Time’s fiction book of the year. It won Goodreads’s award f...