What Kids Are Reading These Days (Not)

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1. Robert D. Shepherd says:

   February 23, 2014 at 8:31 am

   My grandson. I caught this of him a couple years ago, reading in the backseat the way to preschool.

   http://bobshepherdonline.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=190&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2

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2. 7th grade teacher in a Texas title 1 public school says:

   February 23, 2014 at 8:41 am

   Maybe humor is the best way deal with the CCSS. To quote Mark Twain, “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.”

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   • KrazyTA says:

     February 23, 2014 at 1:54 pm

     7th grade teacher in a Texas title 1 public school: sometimes I like to pair that Mark Twain quote with this one from Voltaire:

     “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

     Intelligence and humor. In the service of a “better education for all.”

     A good explanation for why Michelle Rhee and David Coleman committed a Rhee Flee rather than face off against Diane Ravitch in public.

     😎

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3. LG says:

   February 23, 2014 at 10:01 am

   http://t.co/hE7cRI6yhY

   This one was my favorite probably because it contained a rubric and two assessments!

   I now know why I hated rubrics from the start…

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   • Robert D. Shepherd says:

     February 23, 2014 at 11:49 am

     This was hilarious. This and the Foucault.

     However, I suspect that Foucault is on the Reformish Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

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4. artseagal says:

   February 23, 2014 at 10:02 am

   Here are some visions of what newly Coleman approved/ Pearson published pre-k through 1st grade books likely to be coming to your school district soon might be:

   Harold and the Purple Crayon: The Cost of Vandalism and the History of Grafitti

   The Little Engine That Could: Skills for Testing Success (perfect to roll out when universal pre k is rolled out along with testing to ensure Pearson profits by it)

   The Snowy Day: The Effects of Glacial Melting on Weather Patterns (to be included at morning rug time when the daily weather is mentioned).

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   • Robert D. Shepherd says:

     February 23, 2014 at 11:50 am

     LOL. Wonderful.

     Isn’t that “The Little Engine with Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance”?

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5. vickicobb (@vickicobb) says:

   February 23, 2014 at 10:34 am

   You might be interested in nonfiction literature written by top award-winning authors. if you don’t know them by name, check out our website http://www.inkthinktank.com. I’ve been giving a shout-out to these wonderful books on my Huff Post blog . Here’s the link to my latest–a wonderful picture book about the first slave to sue for her freedom in 1781:
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-cobb/an-early-lawsuit-for-libe_b_4814749.html. My next review is Dorothy Hinshaw Patent’s “Homesteading”– a great companion to Little “House on the Prairie.” The value of the CCSS is to increase the reading nonfiction literature, there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s what great teachers have al

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6. Miron Boland says:

   February 23, 2014 at 12:08 pm

   Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a book endorsed by Arne Duncan have a forewarning by Diane Ravitch?

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