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Struggling with Struggling Readers? New Book: The Reading Turn-Around
Finally…these things take so long… but the book I wrote with Lane Clarke and Grace Enriquez is finally in print: The Reading Turn-Around: A Five Part Framework for Differentiated Instructi… more →
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Struggling with Struggling Readers? New Book: The Reading Turn-Around
wrote 2 months ago: Finally…these things take so long… but the book I wrote with Lane Clarke and Grace Enriq … more →
Reading: The ongoing national focus
wrote 4 months ago: Tale as old as time True as it can be Barely even friends Then somebody bends Unexpectedly Just a li … more →
congrats - this is the first time I've liked the readings
wrote 4 months ago: …said a grad student in a recent class (on teaching in the elementary grades) meeting after re … more →
Beautiful Pedagogy...Foxfire Style
wrote 4 months ago: A bit of inspiration for all of us trying to stay grounded in our big fight over public school educa … more →
Social class back in the Times
wrote 6 months ago: Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a gorgeous piece in the New York Times about “the economy” and … more →
Beware of Ruby Payne...a great resource for school districts
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wrote 1 year ago: Thanks to Jane Van Galen for posting a link to Scott McLeod’s discussion about Ruby Payne … more →
School kids rappin' and rockin' the vote!
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wrote 1 year ago: Check out this video on YouTube of a classroom of students informing and inspiring an adult crowd to … more →
Rockin' the Vote! New voters, critical literacies, and K-12 education
wrote 1 year ago: The energy is pervasive – conservatives and liberals alike are just buzzing with constant chit … more →
Blessed Unrest Review by Paul B. Scudder
wrote 1 year ago: Paul Scudder is a fine arts, commercial, and portrait photographer, master naturalist, and long-time … more →
Clean up the beach while on vacation?? Come on...
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wrote 1 year ago: Last week I was on vacation in Ft. Morgan, Alabama. It was gorgeous, especially the breeze in the ev … more →
welfare brat by mary childers
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wrote 1 year ago: I’ll be adding this book to my list of terrific reads that explore the complexities of social … more →
Rich read aloud chapter books/working-class stories by Barbara O'Connor
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wrote 1 year ago: I discovered Barbara O’Connor this summer and have zipped through three of her young adult sho … more →
Anonymous adjunct paints himself into a classed corner
wrote 1 year ago: This article was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly in June and then reprinted in the Atlanta Jou … more →
Terrific piece of research/writing: Turning an observation into inquiry
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wrote 1 year ago: This story about the lives of elevators in the New Yorker last week is fabulously written and remind … more →
Gender and Education Conference in Cincinnati May 13, 2008
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wrote 1 year ago: For you folks around the Cincinnati area – the first ever Gender and Education Regional Teache … more →
French movie pushing issues of class, geography, and stereotypes
wrote 1 year ago: This movie sounds fab! If I get a chance to see it I’ll post my own tidbit… … more →
Gender and Education Association: Call for Conference Proposals
wrote 1 year ago: Call for Papers Gender and Education Association 7th International Conference Theme: Gender: Regulat … more →
Testing Time Again...A modest proposal for change
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wrote 1 year ago: I was in a kindergarten classroom this morning where children are not allowed to make any noise for … more →
What is education for? Getting beyond "a good job"
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wrote 1 year ago: Only recently have I turned my ear toward the discourse of “why” students need or should … more →
