This weekend features the major festival of the year in my town , and as my wife and I walked back from yesterday's round of festivating...

Robert Pondiscio appeared on US News this week to stick up for the Common Core's demand that kindergartners learn to read. He's re...

Russ Walsh is an expert in reading instruction, a blogger, and (as near as I can tell) a gentleman. A recent post of his is, for my money, o...

Defending the Early Years and the Alliance for Childhood have released a report about the use of Kindergarten reading instruction. Authored...

Turns out there is more than one way to reduce the job requirements for teaching. Pennsylvania's Department of Education has apparentl...

So you say you'd like a cheerful story for a change. Fine. Let's talk about Dolly Parton. Really. You may or may not be a fan of D...

Does it seem as if test writers come up with the most obscure, boring, reading-resistant passages possible for standardized test? It's n...

Close reading is an example of how misshapen and distorted a teaching technique can become when it enters the gravitational pull of CCSSetc....