The Uncommon Corps

            While I am not a strong advocate of the “holiday” or “anniversary” curriculum, I must admit that the anniver...

            I just finished reading M. T. Anderson’s Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the ...

Paul Fleischman has been making some very interesting use of digital media to extend and expand the ideas in his book  Eyes Wide Open . Mos...

            I am so glad to see a new book by Martin W. Sandler. He is a well-established writer of history books for ...

News From Teaching Books dot Net I am passing along this email from Nick Glass at Teachingbooks.net -- a site you should know: I'm...

Reading for Perspective: Who Is Telling Me This? Why?               I just finished reading two history books for children, narrat...

            Common Core standards take a general approach to reading comprehension. They focus on big ideas and detail...