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Reading wars

While these boys could converse like adults, their reading was far below grade level. The boys had not been taught how to ...
From the years 2021-2023, Guam was averaging about 735 violent crimes per year. In 2024, there were a total of 273 harrassment cases, 226 terrorizing cases, 224 criminal sexual conduct cases, 206 ...
Learning to read, unlike speaking, walking, or understanding the world around us, is not something humans do naturally.
Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.
Holiday artwork by Irving ISD students is on display in the Main Gallery of the Irving Arts Center. A letter writer praises arts educators. 1 Arts educators — American Education Week (Nov. 17–21) ...
When I went to Boone High School here in Orlando in the 1960s, we had a required course called “Americanism vs. Communism.” I recall the teacher saying that, in Russia, they have courses in political ...
Scott Maxwell’s column regarding funding of Islamic schools is right on (“Anti-gay Christian schools are welcome in Florida. But Muslim ones?” Oct. 29). Religions are belief systems, accepted by a ...
Their “speech” begins with early, involuntary sounds, and develops into sophisticated sequences of movements - using the lips, tongue, and producing all of the sounds in words and sentences. Speech is ...
Teachers cannot really talk about being on strike on social media given their union and professional guidelines, but as a retired Alberta teacher, I can. I remember being on strike in Alberta (AI only ...
Jennifer Yang, a mother of two, and founder of Dearist, a book and stationery series for kids with everything needed to write and mail personal handwritten letters, turned her passion for letter ...
Charlie Kirk was a good man. I don’t think his assassination was political. I think it was about good vs. evil. People don’t realize we’re in a war between good and evil. Evil can enter our homes ...
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