It's the beginning of a new school year, and a good moment to take stock of the major policy issues, controversies and problems that we...

The Harry Potter books were back in the news for the six zillionth instance of a ban placed on the Rowling classic novels. The books have b...

Lord save us from the unending arguments about reading instruction. I started a Twitter thread just after Christmas and that thing was still...

If Ben Johnson is as good as his word, right now, out in Utah, a bunch of teachers are having to put up with being called "learning eng...

Like many teachers, I mostly hate movies and tv shows about teaching. There are too many about hero teachers, larger than life pedagogues wh...

The idea of retaining third graders who can't pass a standardized reading test has its roots in two things: 1) a bunch of research of v...

Here we go-- it's an actual new month after August (which always seems about 5 days long). Here are some things to read from this week. ...