‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ ‘Goodnight Moon’ and the Case for Picture Books as Great Art
The children’s author Mac Barnett does not pull punches when it comes to his chosen profession: “If you don’t think children’s books are real books,” he writes, “on some level you don’t think children are real people.…
” The author of more than 70 books, Barnett has become a key evangelis…
As the Library of Congress’s ninth National Ambassador for Young Peopl…
And Barnett scored a rare feat for a children’s book author, this spri…
Laura Bornfreund opens her new book, “Rediscovering Kindergarten: Embracing Play & Joy in Kindergarten” by bringing readers inside her daughter Ainsley’s experience entering kindergarten in August 2017.…
The fact that Ainsley just started high school shows the long and thor…
Bornfreund — a senior fellow at New America, where she previously was …
In her book, she digs into the history of kindergarten and how it’s ch…
Reading Scores Continue to Drop for Many Middle Schoolers
For the most part, public school students have made significant strides in returning to subject proficiency levels from before the pandemic, according to a new study by NWEA.…
But a disturbing exception is the lowest-achieving students in middle …
The NWEA study finds that, not only have reading scores not stabilized…
The study draws on data from the MAP Growth National Dashboard and con…
College Admissions Testing is Returning to Mixed Reactions
Several leading colleges and universities are reinstating SAT or ACT scores as part of their admissions requirements after years of being "test blind" (not looking at standardized test scores, even if submitted).…
The move has revived the debate over the fairness and value of such te…
Institutions initially removed the test score requirements during the …
Since testing centers were shutting down, many students didn’t have ac…
China, Russia and India agreed to maintain regional security and economic architecture in the Asia-Pacific, according to a joint statement issued on Monday after the 15th trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of the three countries.
Memorial days were set up by governments of the war’s major belligerents to remember those who died or sacrificed themselves, and to remind people of tragedies caused by war.…
Here are ways different countries keep the memory of the wartime histo…