Does Reading Improve Health?
It does — mental health, physical health, and brain health. by Carrie H. Kennedy Ph.D. for Psychology Today When thinking about our well-being and taking care of ourselves, some things that we should do are harder than others. Reading is one of the easier ones. You can do it in your most comfortable clothes, in your most comfortable chair, or when…
Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open.
By Apoorva Mandavilli for the NY Times. On a sunny afternoon in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a desk in an adjoining office. The ceiling fans were off to prevent the sheet music from scattering. The windows were sealed shut. East High is Denver’s…
The story of one of the most inspiring schools on the planet.
by Rutger Bregman via Twitter This is the story of one of the most inspiring schools on the planet. It’s sometimes described as the ‘Hogwarts for do-gooders’, and when I visited the school in March of this year, I was absolutely blown away. You’ll find the school on a busy street in west London, in the Kilburn district, opposite a…
Is Most School Math Useless?
by Gary Rubinstein I’ve dedicated my life to teaching a subject I love and have loved since I was a small child. This country, and throughout the world really, a lot of resources are dedicated to teaching students math. From Kindergarten to 12th grade almost every student takes math and in many elementary schools math is taught for ninety minutes…
OUGH!
English spelling is tough because it was not thoroughly thought through, but we tell children to plough on and deal with the hiccoughs that inevitably happen. Lucy tries to explain English pronunciation to Ricky. Reading Kingdom is an online K-3 reading program that uses a new “phonics-plus” model to teach students to read and write at a 3rd grade level…
What the Best Places in America Have in Common
And what they reveal about alleviating poverty across the country By Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Timothy J. Nelson for The Atlantic (This article is adapted from the authors’ forthcoming book.) When president Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty” in 1964, the nation didn’t have any method of counting the poor, or even a firm…
