Persistence Pays Off: A Lesson from the Badger State

Critical thinking involves actively analyzing and evaluating information: thinking about a topic in an objective way.  These skills are important for success in school and in life. Learning critical thinking can help students to  expand their perspectives and increase their decision making ability.  A survey by the Reboot Foundation showed that “More than 95 percent of […]

People generally read non-fiction to acquire information. Non-fiction encourages questioning and critical thinking and builds vocabulary. Starting children reading non-fiction will prepare them for the type of reading they will do as adults. Non-fiction texts make up around 84% of adult, real-world reading. However, non-fiction does little to develop emotional intelligence, such as managing motivation, emotions, […]

Berkeley Professor, Robert Reich, in an effort to be relevant, is weighing in the horrific, NAZI-style book banning/burning effort undertaken by those nasty busybody privileged moms who dare to be concerned about their kids’ education. In a recent substack, Robert Reich argues that the attention given to creating lists of […]

Hello Orange County Board, Thank you for your special meeting on January 31, 2022 reviewing the books Out of Darkness, Gender Queer, and Lawn Boy. I would like to point out a few things, however. First, Ms. Smylie, towards the end of the meeting, infers that parental concern is a “distraction” from real […]

The controversy about the best method to teach reading has been raging for more than 200 years.  Phonics has been around since the 1600s.  In the 17th & 18th centuries phonics remained the prevailing method. Children learned the relationship between how letters looked (graphemes) and how they sounded (phonemes). However, […]