Long taken for granted as a solid literacy approach, the practice of having all students in a class read the same book has come under scrutiny in recent years. Last month, school librarian and blogger ...
Novels are a large part of FVHS’s English classes, yet in world language classes, books play a very small part of the curriculum, and the classes focus on more short stories or texts. So why are there ...
The debate around the use of novels in English classes of all age groups is at least 20 years old, but it remains unresolved, continually bubbling up in blog posts and conversations among a wide range ...
Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...
As a child of working-class Miami, Robin Brooks noticed the vast range in wealth among the people who lived there, from the poor to the millionaires. She didn’t yet know to attribute this disparity to ...