Thanks to a post in Mr. English 101, I found two good links to studies on the importance of extensive reading (also known as Sustained Silent Reading or Free Voluntary Reading). Stephen Krashen, of course, is the person many of...
Read MoreWhat If We Treated Doctors The Way We Treat Teachers? is the headline of a good piece in The Huffington Post by Shaun Johnson, an associate professor of education. Here’s an excerpt: What if we indeed held doctors and...
Read More“Childhood Self-Control Predicts Adult Health and Wealth” is the headline reporting on a new study on self-control (here’s a much more extensive analysis of the study and yet another analysis — this one...
Read MoreQwiki, the number-one ranked site on The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students — 2010, opened to the public today (you might want to check out TechCrunch’s post — Video Search Engine Qwiki Is Now...
Read MoreScoop.it lets you first identify a topic. Then, it continually finds items on the web related to that topic in a nice interface. Then, with one click, it lets you “scoop it” into your own personalized newspaper...
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