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By Rita Platt With John Wolfe Well, I’ve done it. I’ve had a Twitter-feud. You know you’re not going  to change anyone’s mind by arguing […]

The internet is abuzz with talk about teacher tenure. Not only is Twitter alive with #WithoutTenure, Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Maher have recently weighed in with uninformed opinions.  But, […]

By Rita Platt and John Wolfe Assigning students carefully prepared homework is a gift we give them. In American schools there are a wide range […]

By Rita Platt The debate about the pros and cons of the Common Core State Standards  (CCSS) is raging! At this point most of the […]

By: Rita Platt Recently I was at a meeting for reading specialists when the concept of level-appropriate texts came up. Much to my surprise several […]

By: Rita Platt The “Flipped Classroom” is all the rage these days. Educational journals, blogs, and chat rooms, are flooded with the concept of “flipping.” […]

There is a movement to teach children to read at a younger age and it may help to incorporate short periods of intentional training every day in the area of rhyming in order to move along the continuum of learning in a reasonable, developmentally appropriate manner. The focus and goal of this action research project was to increase students’ understanding and use of rhyming words as a pre-literacy skill.

By: Amy Klein See below: a bar code, a UPC symbol and the relatively new invention, a QR code. Ubiquitous on packaging, advertising, personal ID […]

By Rita Platt What is your philosophy of education? This was the question that the professor asked us in my second year of my teacher […]

By Amy Klein The resource room was a rare oasis of calm. One boy, typically surly and irritable, sprawled in a papasan chair, reading. Actually […]