In this collective case study of caregiver behaviors with their toddlers, two-minute videotaped reading interactions were analyzed using a constant comparative method. Twenty-four caregiver—toddler dyads from a high-risk sample of children prenatally exposed to cocaine were selected from a larger sample because they represented the extremes of expressive language scores on the Reynell Expressive Language [...]

This article examines Reading Recovery as a microcosm for issues related to race and access. Tenets of critical race theory are presented to explore how racial biases are systemic in our ways of being, teaching, and conducting research. Specifically, I present data for African American children involved in Reading Recovery in one Midwestern American city [...]

This article examines Reading Recovery as a microcosm for issues related to race and access. Tenets of critical race theory are presented to explore how racial biases are systemic in our ways of being, teaching, and conducting research. Specifically, I present data for African American children involved in Reading Recovery in one Midwestern American city [...]

TED Talks for Education If you love the TED talks as I do, you’ll be excited to see this upcoming launch of a TED forum, targeting forward thinking specific to education. Check out their online registration to be part of the forum. More: continued here

TED Talks for Education If you love the TED talks as I do, you’ll be excited to see this upcoming launch of a TED forum, targeting forward thinking specific to education. Check out their online registration to be part of the forum. More: continued here

Recordings For the Blind and Dyslexic, which has the largest collection of digitized textbooks and literature (64,000 titles) in the world, finally will make that available through iTunes. I, along with many others, have been waiting for this for a while. I hope the app (which is selling for $19.95) will be worth the wait. [...]

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve just become the owner of this longstanding website, and so I want to tell you a little about myself. I’ve been working with kids for over twenty five years.  I settle on that number (25) because it’s true and because it signals lots of experience.  More than [...]

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve just become the owner of this longstanding website, and so I want to tell you a little about myself. I’ve been working with kids for over twenty five years.  I settle on that number (25) because it’s true and because it signals lots of experience.  More than [...]

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve just become the owner of this longstanding website, and so I want to tell you a little about myself. I’ve been working with kids for over twenty five years.  I settle on that number (25) because it’s true and because it signals lots of experience.  More than [...]

Apple Experiments with New Way to Differentiate Accommodations for students with learning disabilities AppleInsider reports on Apple experimenting with a fantastic approach to deliver individualized accommodations, with regards to how information looks and feels to students, to their computer screens.  This would take “Differentiated Instruction” an oft-used educational buzz word to very cool heights.  It [...]