Technological literacy will be a necessity — not a frill — in the 21st century. The most important single benefit that the communications revolution can deliver to each and every child in this country is an advanced cutting-edge 21st century education. The way…

We learn to do well what we learn to love; it’s as true in reading as in anything else. At some time today or tomorrow, you’ll be reading something and you’ll feel the print sliding away from you, your sense of power over…

For more than 7,000 islands in the Philippines, our country is rich in “katutubo” o native people who live in mountain high places that has also have right to learn. Most modern societies are interested in including everyone in the development and growth…

The transition from the teacher education institution to life in a real classroom has been characterized as a type of reality shock in which beginning teachers realize that the ideals they formed while training may not be appropriate for the realism they are…

Reading is power…and such power comes from the will to read. A study of children inEngland continue to read less independentlyand find less pleasure in reading than manyof their peers in other countries (Twist et al.,2003; 2007). In the 2006 Progress inInternational Reading…

Globally, there are 50-75 million ‘marginalized’ children who are not enrolled in school. Children whose primary language is not the language of instruction in school are more likely to drop out of school or fail in early grades. Research has shown that children’s…

“If we want our teachers to teach our students well, then we must teach our teachers well.” The professional development of new teachers yields the best results when the induction process is systematic and sustained Hiebert, James, Ronald Gallimore, and James W. Stigler…