There's always a lot of debate about required summer reading for high school students. Should summer reading be required? The high school teachers who I know believe it's important to keep stude...
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Sigmund Freud was born today in 1856. To learn more about the founder of psychoanalysis and its impact, check out George Makari’s masterful history, Revolution in Mind : The Creation of P...
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In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education. Through insider accounts and ac...
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Lester C. Thurow, bestselling author and MIT economist, has died at age 77. Thurow was a leading global economist and longtime advocate for closing the wage gap between rich and poor Americans...
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Yesterday, March 20, 2016, marked the 100th anniversary of Ota Benga's suicide. Ota, a young Congolese "pygmy," was captured by slavers in Africa, but American explorer Samuel Phillips Verner ...
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A fascinating video from author of the beloved Cinderella Ate My Daughter , Peggy Orenstein, delves into the nature of sex and intimacy for girls today. Orenstein draws from the research she...
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Journalist Jeremy N. Smith's Epic Measures is the true story of a 20-year, 500-scientist, $100-million moonshot attempt to track and quantify every illness, injury, and death for everyone on ...
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Tappan Wilder, nephew of famed American author Thornton Wilder , joined residents of Wallowa County for their 10th Fishtrap Big Read Kickoff. The Big Read features two of Wilder's works: the p...
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On this day in 2013, Chris Kyle, author of the best-selling memoir American Sniper , was killed. Kyle was shot by a former Marine whom Kyle had taken out to a shooting range to help the Marine...
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In the world we know, the story of two neighbors with ethnic differences falling in love might be the subject of a romantic comedy. In Afghanistan, it's the equivalent of Romeo and Juliet fall...
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University of Cincinnati's Special Education Department has made Paul Daugherty's An Uncomplicated Life : A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter required reading! Paul’s book is a...
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In anticipation of her upcoming book Midnight in Broad Daylight , author Pamela Rotner Sakamoto has created a short video to introduce readers to the Fukuhara family. During the Depression, ...
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Last week, Kenneth C. Davis , author of Don’t Know Much About History , was featured on Maine National Public Radio. Davis—who has devoted his career to discovering the truth behind th...
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We're delighted to share this video from Justin Smith, a teacher at Democracy Prep in NYC. Justin talks about a school-wide event that got his students excited to read Agatha Christie, intro...
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The Zinn Education Project is offering teachers the exciting opportunity to win a classroom set (35 copies) of the new 35th anniversary edition of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United ...
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Father James Martin, the revered Jesuit priest and New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, has written a captivating, poignant, and often funny ...
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The much-anticipated film adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s riveting novel Beasts of No Nation hits Netflix and selected theaters this week. You can see the trailer below. Iweala’s short ...
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Kristen Green, author of Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County , writes about returning to her alma mater and sharing her story with students: "This fall, I visited my alma mate...
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Regina Calcaterra’s New York Times-bestselling memoir Etched in Sand : A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island continues to get great pick up in...
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We're very excited to announce that McLean School in Maryland has adopted Jessica Lahey 's The Gift of Failure for their faculty's Academic Reading Group. In addition, for the first time ...
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Stephanie Owens, our Agatha Christie Master Teacher, has started blogging! Follow her new Tumblr here for Christie teaching tips, lesson plans, and reports from the International Agatha Christ...
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On this day in history in 1783, The Treaty of Paris was signed. Among other concessions, the treaty included Britain's formal recognition of the United States of America as an independent nati...
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Congratulations to Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor , which has been climbing the New York Times Education Bestseller list! With over a million copies sold, it's cur...
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The New York Times recently published an article “A Master’s Degree in . . . Masculinity?”, which examined the growth of university masculinities studies programs, and profiled the profe...
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Today marks a tragic day in world history: 70 years ago, an atomic bomb (code named "Little Boy") was dropped from an American plane on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on August 9th, a ...
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