As Hurricane Milton barrelled towards Florida final month, I taught a three-hour Zoom class and tried to not refresh my cellphone for updates. I grew up in Florida, and my dad and mom, together with my sister and her household, nonetheless stay on the Atlantic Coast, 100 and fifty miles from the place Milton hit. […]

Most not too long ago, the discharge of the brand new NAEP (Nationwide Evaluation of Instructional Progress–typically regarded as the Nation’s Report Card) scores reveals that our nation’s 4th and eighth graders’ studying and math scores stay dismal and haven’t risen because the previous administration in 2022. The aftermath of the pandemic is actual and […]

A letter from Alexander Deriev, husband of the late poet Regina Derieva. The Russian couple have a helluva again story. I wrote about her in “Writ on Water,” an 2014 essay for the Instances Literary Complement right here. And I’ve written about her on the E book Haven right here and right here and right […]

The American Library Affiliation has introduced its annual lists of the very best graphic novels for adults and for teenagers — spotlighting 100 actually nice graphic novels printed in 2024. The ALA’s Graphic Novels and Comics Spherical Desk yearly assembles the checklist, every made up of fifty titles. In addition they launch a “prime 10” […]

Not too long ago, I stumbled on a “not occasionally” posed query from a instructor on behalf of a ‘distraught guardian’: “I work with a pupil whose guardian was distraught after seeing the outcomes of routine mid-year screening. As one can think about, this pupil did poorly on the screening and reportedly has been recognized […]

The New Yorker’s editors and critics thought of lots of of latest releases this 12 months with a view to choose the Greatest Books of 2024. The journal’s writers additionally made their approach by means of many different books—novels that they had missed upon publication, long-out-of-print essay collections, classics that the passage of time had […]