I no longer am sure of the exact date when I met Jean Tucker, but I do know it happened over seven years ago, and that meeting her changed my life. Jean is about as different from me as a human being ...

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From the Civil War to the dawn of the new millennium, one book has held a secure spot in American classrooms: the basal reader. These anthologies of excerpts, poems, and other short works have been ...

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...