Which teacher has the bigger influence? Where is more time available for change? Those two numbers—900 and 7,800—will appear over and over in this book.
The brainstorm became known as eCAP (El Crystal Audiobook Project) and added up to sixty iPod kits (from grant money), along with six hundred audiobooks. When a teacher identifies a non-proficient rea...
Not that parents are alone in their extreme behavior. That have more than enough company among school boards and high-ranking politicians who think if you fix the schools, they'll fix the kids. So, in...
The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.
The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it;and the more you like it, the more you do it.
The last thing you want first-graders thinking is that what they’re reading in first grade is as good as books are going to get!
The eventual strength of our vocabulary is determined not by the ten thousand common words but by how many rare words we understand.
The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
Since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book
So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of...
Sector 7 by David Wiesner (Clarion, 1997)
The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it;and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know;and the more you know...
When the daily number of words for each group of children is projected across four years, the four-year-old child from the professional family will have heard 45 million words, the working-class child...
When someone becomes a teacher, she’s like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she’s trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors—that is, to pick up this book or that bo...
The great ones—you can still taste them years later, even remember the exact spot where you met them. You can’t always put your finger on why they linger with you, but they do.
From 2,272 text messages a month in 2008, American teenagers (ages 13–17) ballooned to 3,339 messages a month in 2010, an average of six per waking hour. Simply put, students in one of the most format...
Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.
What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.
Of those differences, there are some things that remain the same. In 1982, the U.S. economy was in its worst recession since the Great Depression, and the nation’s business leaders were looking for so...
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