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Whether you are a parent reading at home with your young child or a teacher trying to engage a 12th-grade class, picture books matter. Picture books' tactlessness, their glossy covers, and bright pictures beg to be opened, to be read, but also to be experienced. Years after my father read to me...

At the National Council for the Teachers of English (NCTE) Convention in Houston, TX, NCTE members Ernest Morrell and Donalyn Miller spoke to more than 600 new attendees at the First Timers' Welcome on Friday, November 16. Dr. Morrell encouraged the participants to "Be relentless. Be courageous. Be...

I remember, very clearly still, my childhood bedroom, a warm and tidy little space with light yellow walls and a bed with a blue and green floral comforter. I remember many happy evenings in this room, reading with my dad before I fell asleep. I can recall the excitement I felt at the kickoff of...

Chloe Gibbs, an assistant professor of economics and Fellow in the Institute for Educational Initiatives, has won a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of parenting education and length of day care on long-term child educational outcomes. “This grant...

Over a century ago, American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer J ohn Dewey stated, "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience."He emphasized the importance of educators pausing to reflect on their practice, asking questions about practices that were...

Podcasts and audiobooks have become wildly popular over the past few years. According to an article in Forbes Magazine ( March 2018 ), "Audiobooks are up about 20% year over year across the publishing industry for the first eight months of 2017, according to the Association of American Publishers'...