My grandfather tried to teach me to sharpen a knife when I was eleven. He had a whetstone he’d owned for forty years—flat and ...

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Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

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Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by ...

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Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...