Jacksonville Journal-Courier on MSN

The kid whisperer: How to teach a kid to not use hurtful words

Kids like this kid (and me) will not improve their behavior when you apply Warning Therapy. That means that when a difficult ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
The Boston Globe

Debate rages on over how to teach kids to read

As a coalition representing educators, parents, business leaders, and other advocates, we were disturbed by the Feb. 4 op-ed “The fallacy of settled science in literacy.” Nancy Carlsson-Paige and ...
Sharper Iron

To Foster Biblical Literacy, Teach People to Read

“Only a familiarity with books of all sorts enables students to pick up on the clues about what an author is doing and how he’s doing it. They need to read—a lot. To foster biblical literacy, we need ...