In an English/language arts classroom in Iowa, 10th graders are analyzing the rhetoric in books about computer geeks, fast food, teenage marketing, the working poor, chocolate-making, and ...

With the Common Core Standards came an increased focus on reading informational texts, starting with kindergarten. But integrating informational texts isn’t as simple as having students read a couple ...

As part of a continuing discussion on the myths and truths surrounding Common, this piece seeks to shed light on the standards’ “informational text” guidelines, along with questions and concerns that ...

Bransford, J., A. Brown, and R. Cocking, eds. 2001. How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Research Council. Donovan, S.M ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. As we make our predictions today, there is also some vocabulary that we're going to need to understand.