A Teacher’s Ideas About Cryptocurrencies
Here I am, discussing something that is totally out of my league, I guess. Well to be fair, from 1983 to 1990 I had a career as a small two-bit […]
Month: December 2017
The Merry-Go Round of Literacy
I just finished commenting on a blog post by someone who makes claims of being a literacy expert. The blog submitting that allowing children to choose their own books gets them […]
California Fails Again
Are we surprised? No! Teaching children to read requires a well-trained teaching staff and the use of a fully vetted direct, systematic, phonetic curriculum. Alex Newman is spot-on in his […]
The Growth Factor
A few years ago, I received a visit from a distraught single mother whose son I had taught years before in kindergarten. In kindergarten her child zoomed into reading, writing […]