I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

…Shouldn’t schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn’t the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students’ hands? Shouldn’t this be a front-burner issue at all...

Both of these students- both high school seniors both old enough to vote in the upcoming election- thought ‘Al’ Qaeda was a person. At that time the United States had been at war for five...

What do we mean when we say our school ‘values’ reading?

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by ‘value’ reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school ‘values’ reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses...