News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Boys who grow up around books earn significantly more money as adults, says a new study in the Economic Journal. (via Quartz) Writing Quality Decreases Among… Read more »
I highly recommend WG’s recent post, “Dysfunctional Middle Schools.” WG is a former teacher and co-founder of The Interlocking Curriculum, a Quaker school in the late 1970s. When he talks about how to establish a culture of respect in schools, he speaks from his own experience. The IC did indeed… Read more »
How Lincoln Learned to Read by Daniel Wolff Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on March 17th 2009 Genres: Nonfiction Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads An engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of twelve great figures, from Benjamin… October 13, 2009 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 0 ★★★★½
