If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.Atticus Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) As teachers and […]
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As a kid, I used to sneak into my sister’s bedroom, pull out each of her “Baby-Sitters Club” books, look at the covers, and wonder what each one was about. I’d make up stories to what I thought was going to happen, but never once cracked the books open to attempt to read the print.
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This quiz is part of the upcoming EdSurge guide, What Does Reading Well Look Like? Some worry that the written word is disappearing amid the many technological advancements of the information age—that scrolling and texting have replaced reading and writing. And of course, the fear among many is that younger generations suffer the greatest consequences
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A digital model of a woman with short dark hair and a green jacket pictured in the corner of the computer screen stops a student mid-sentence. The student has mispronounced the word “stripes” as “strips.” The model, Amira, states a word that rhymes with “stripes” to help the student. “Now you try reading this word,”
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