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Interview with Hal W. Lanse, Ph. D., Author of Read Well, Think Well: Build Your Child's Reading, C

"There’s so much that parents can do to support reading at home." Touring the blogosphere this month is author and literacy specialist Hal W. Lanse, whose latest book, Read Well, Think Well,...

‘Education transformed’

In a bland McCain commercial touting his willingness to listen to everyone’s ideas and thereby achieve utopia, the announcer says “education transformed” over the image of a house....

Ollie Johnston, 1912-2008

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston in The Incredibles Ollie Johnston is what you call a complete artist. I spent many a day as a child reading his book The illusion Of Life (co-written with fellow...

My Little Boy is Reading!! WooHoo!

Talk about exhilarating! When you hear your child reading for the first time, it's like nothing else. Especially when you know that you're the one who taught him. It has to be one of the most...

When Your Children Ask about the Genocide in Darfur, What will YOU say?

When your children, and grandchildren study the genocide of Darfur in the future, what will you tell them when they ask why no one helped? As a child reading about the holocaust made me angry,...

I disagree with suspending the purchase of textbooks

I just have to disagree with someone I usually agree with. Wes calls for the suspension of textbook purchasing:"The purchase of paper-based textbooks, along with the dearth of analog testing...

10,000 fathers wanted on Father's Day (on 17 June 2007)

I'm not kidding. They're really aiming to get ten-thousand fathers. You need to bring your kid(s) along though (but it seems there's no age restrictions on the ages of the dads or the kids,...

New York/Imamura

Hey there, folks: just breaking the surface for an update. I flew in on Friday, and caught a matinee of Shohei Imamura?s superb Pigs and Battleships at BAM. In the evening I rendezvoused with Mr. and...

Movie Review: Crooked

Anyone who's been repeatedly struck about the head and neck with a blunt object for an extended period of time will tell you the same thing -- after a while, it just stops hurting. Well, I'm...