Say it isn’t so: video games are influencing kids to read books
That’s a headline I never expected to write with any sincerity — but according to Alison Flood and Sian Cain at the Guardian, the popular video game Minecraft has become a sort of… Read more »
The Talented Tenth
Today, as months of excitement culminate in the publication of Ladee Hubbard’s debut novel The Talented Ribkins, we’re also eagerly re-reading The Talented Tenth, the essay by W.E.B. Du Bois that helped inspire… Read more »
On sale now: Campus Confidential by Jacques Berlinerblau
We’re thrilled today to be publishing Jacques Berlinerblau’s Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t, for Professors, Parents, and Students. A look at the state of higher education today from one who… Read more »
Chicka Chicka USB: Whether print or digital, toddlers can follow a story
If you’ve seen a toddler tackle a smartphone, with that creepily innate ability to swipe left and right through all your photos, this story will come as no shock to… Read more »
Back in my day, we lectured in unflipped classrooms… and we loved it
Recently, writers in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times and the Atlantic have delivered impassioned defenses of the Olde Timey College Lecture. I refer to the antediluvian practice in… Read more »
Warning of Islamic “indoctrination,” Tennessee parent petitions school to ban history textbook
Earlier this year, we wrote about repeated attempts by the Tennessee House of Representatives to pass a bill making the Bible the state’s “official book,” whatever that means. While the… Read more »
Massachusetts nonprofit donates $500,000 in books to Navajo and Hopi schools
An Amherst, Massachusetts, nonprofit focused on promoting literacy has just made its largest donation of books ever to Navajo and Hopi nation schools. Joshua Kellogg at the Farmingham Daily Times reports that… Read more »
Chinese activist sues Ministry of Education over homophobic textbooks
The exhausting news of minorities demanding that their government-sanctioned textbooks acknowledge their humanity continues. We’re no stranger to this in the United States. And now, in China, an LGBTQ activist is suing… Read more »
This week in textbook theft and fraud: Detroit Public Schools’ “killer of dreams” goes to jail
The school year may be just beginning, but that’s no reason why we can’t bring you the latest in textbook flimflammery, chicanery, and downright criminality. After all, it’s kind of… Read more »
Climate change “might” be real; it “may” be caused by humans; it “could” be very bad.
Last month, we reported on the Portland Public School Board’s decision to “abandon the use of any adopted text or material that is found to express doubt about the severity of… Read more »