Today is the last day of school and I feel as (or more) excited than the students at the prospect of a long and languorous summer stretching out before me. When I think back on my own school days, one of my fondest memories is of a special reading program that we had at my [...]
The Reading Cult for Kids: Scholastic Books

I have vivid recollections of my six years in elementary school. A few are traumatic–hysterics on the first day of kindergarten after being pried from my mother’s arms and deposited aboard a menacing, yellow bus; a sadistic first grade teacher who sported a towering beehive (in ’81) and took pleasure in punishing disorganized little me by dumping the contents of my desk on to my [...]
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