Teaching to the Top

When I taught in a small private school in London, the headmistress frequently reminded her teachers to “teach to the top.”She meant that we should

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O is NOT for “owl”

I almost bought a book called Webster’s First Phonics compiled by Stuart Dent. At first glance it seemed to offer a beginning word book that

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It DOES Matter What They Read

If Americans are not a reading nation, it is because they do not find books interesting. If they do not find books interesting, I can only think it’s because they never discovered the excitement of books while they were young. If all I’d had to read when I was young had been the boring drivel that passes as “relevant” reading for young people these days, I might never have developed a love of reading.

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