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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Key Ideas? Details?: What’s the Difference?

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            Recently, an elementary school principal lamented to me that she was surprised by test results showing stude...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Letting Jefferson Speak for Himself: A Biography Generously Sprinkled with Quotes

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            In the recent picture book Thomas Jefferson Grows a Nation, author Peggy Thomas makes liberal use of short “Jefferson” quotat...
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Saturday, October 3, 2015

A History Book for Elementary School Readers with All the Necessary Pieces: The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

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            The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch is an inspiring, well-written, and well-illustrated biography of the accomplishments of an ...
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Monday, September 14, 2015

Exciting Discoveries Reveal the Nature of Science

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              The recent discovery of a new species in the human family—Homo naledi—identified by anthropologist Lee Berger and his team ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Family Histories

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            Remembered family stories are small treasures. They remind us of events that—while not of broad historical s...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Celebrating the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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            While I am not a strong advocate of the “holiday” or “anniversary” curriculum, I must admit that the anniver...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

What If Mind-Gripping Books Were the Center of Curriculum?

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