Welcome to Day 3 of the Share a Story - Shape a Future literacy blog tour. Today's theme is Reading Aloud, hosted by Susan Stephenson, The Book Chook (image to the left created by Susan). Susan says: "Reading is magic. When you encourage a child to read, you are actually conferring tw...

Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

Obama has appointed Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, which I think is pretty good. Genachowski is on the record as supporting network neutrality. Also, there’s a fair amount of eco-friendliness and tech-savviness in his background — he headed up the Obama team’s internet campaig...

I’m trying something different this year. I’m not assigning novels and telling everyone which pages to read, having class discussions about the themes, providing background knowledge, making vocabulary lists, or asking “comprehension” questions that I mark for a grade. This y...

It is not common sense or compassion as much as necessity which drove the state of Pennsylvania to offer early release to some non-violent offenders .   Overcrowded prisons helped to prompt the offer of opportunity for offenders to transition back into society sooner through various programs.  Pa...

It comes as no shock to those of you who know that I coach a Bible Quiz Team, that I am a big advocate of Bible reading. In my opinion, no person should consider themselves educated unless they have read significant portions of the scriptures for themselves... in whatever translation. How can you un...

Can't get enough! Book lovers at work programs have big stars such as Authors@Google even though it seems the program has not had any recent guest. What is more remarkable is that companies quietly doing their job day after day have found book programs to be a great way to broaden their staff views ...

"Once this agreement is made,  (Step 1) the defendant funds a stream of payments to the plaintiff, according to specific needs. In most cases,  (Step 2) the defendant then transfers the responsibility to a "qualified assignment," which (Step 3) funds the damage payments with an annuity".  FAQ onÂ...

From Hirhurim: Jewish schools - in every generation, but especially in an era of openness and choices - have a crucial responsibility concurrent with their job of teaching Jewish literacy and texts. They have to also teach them to value, love and desire to participate in Jewish life (in educational ...

These are my notes from Marco Torres‘ keynote at ITSC 2009 “Rethinking It.” I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION, AND MARCO HAS GIVEN ME PERMISSION TO SHARE SOME EXCERPTS/CLIPS FROM IT. “The Community Inspiration Studio” is the name of Marco’s classroom - In addition to be...