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English Teachers Work to Instill the Joy of Reading. Testing Gets in the Way Perrillo and Newman: The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure.

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English Teachers Work to Instill the Joy of Reading. Testing Gets in the Way Perrillo and Newman: The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure.

"Teaching to the test is as old as English itself – as a secondary school subject, that is." Jonna & me in @the74.bsky.social.

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Uncensored Educators at the frontlines of the censorship wars share stories of survival and strategies for resistance American educators are contending with an unpreced...

English educators! Look out for this fantastic forthcoming book by my colleague Jonna Perrillo! @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social hep.gse.harvard.edu/979889557063...

25.08.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gatsby in Class: A Centennial Timeline
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Gatsby @ 100: American Classrooms, American Dreams? - Public Books The story of Gatsby, Nick, Tom, and Daisy is also, much more importantly, part of the history of hundreds of millions of student readers and their teachers, spanning eight decades.

www.publicbooks.org/gatsby-100-a... On Gatsby's centennial, let's think about its readers. Thanks @publicbooks.bsky.social !

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Trump cutsΒ to arts and humanitiesΒ are aΒ tragic loss National Endowment for the Humanities funding supports museums, libraries, schools and archives whose programs show humanities and arts are integral to democracy.

Published in Newsday with my collaborator Jonna Perrillo. (Sorry about the firewall.)
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Wow. Seems like a good year for Frederick Jackson Turner to apply.

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Thanks. Just attended an NHA meeting... working on OpEd.

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Can you please provide a link? I don't see any cancellations announced on NEH.gov

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In recognition of the centennial of The Great Gatsby's publication, I created this timeline.

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Stay tuned for the article in @publicbooks.bsky.social @knightlab.northwestern.edu

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Giving Day 2025 - Be Unstoppable Let's harness the unstoppable power of our Stony Brook community to achieve extraordinary things.

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