The Uncommon Corps

A colleague just shared this posting from T he Washington Post Answer Sheet blog . Over one hundred authors and illustrators of children...

Wow! It’s D é j à Vu All Over Again Remember thematic studies? Classroom inquiries? Author studies? I’m talking about years ago dur...

If ever there was confirmation that the new Common Core Standards are not, in fact, asking that Language Arts and English teachers no longer...

Helping Us Think: Authors Promoting Historical Literacy             When learning history, a major thematic understanding is time, cont...

My daughter Ella is obsessed with birds. Her favorite birds are tropical, but she is fascinated by all of them. When did this sta...

The historic Civil Rights Movement is very much in the news these days, with the anniversary of the March on Washington, the Children’s Cru...

Last night, I read "The Education Issue" of The New York Times Magazine ." Two articles made me think about the role of non...