Have you been keeping up with the point-counterpoint debate in Education Week in response to James DeLisle’s rant against the effectiveness of Differentiated Instruction? (“Differentiation Doesn’t Work,” www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/01/07/differentiation-doesnt-work.html ) I know Jim ...

This headline in the weekend newspaper caught my attention…and disturbed me. I have found reading books for fun to be one of my life’s great pleasures. An even more disturbing fact associated with this decrease in reading-for-pleasure is this quote, “…only 17% of all children...