In Literacy Crisis, Novels in Verse Can Help | Opinion The winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature shares the power of poetry and novels in verse.

Try novels in verse for reluctant readers.

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They Want to Replace Teachers With AI A White House vision of “humanoid educators” reveals a deeper misunderstanding of how students learn, and why human teaching cannot be automated.

A solution brought to you by people who once again, know very little about how kids learn.
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America is Losing Its Soul in Brown-Skinned Screams and White-Skinned Silence America is dying.

America is Losing Its Soul in Brown-Skinned Screams and White-Skinned Silence
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The Pentagon’s Culture Wars Strike West Point

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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Want To Gut Medicaid? It’s Not So Easy. Republicans are desperate to slash Medicaid—but a top plan would hit red states the hardest

What. A. Mess.
"Want To Gut Medicaid? It’s Not So Easy."
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Gripping read that is so on point, especially now.

Welcome to America — Now Leave Cruelty is the point

Trump’s claim that the U.S. has seen a “migrant crime wave” is false. Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born citizens, according to an analysis of crime data from 1980 to 2022 conducted by the American Immigration Council.

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Mass deportations would adversely affect the overall economy while decimating several sectors that rely heavily on immigrant labor — construction, agriculture, and the service industry — especially with an unemployment rate of just over 4%.

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Beautifully written about the process of farming asa metaphor for "faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."

Happy Trans Visibility Day!

NH House Finance Committee to Vote on Amendment to CUT the State Library Budget EveryLibrary Urges Immediate Public Response to Stop Dangerous Defunding Effort

NH Friends! URGENT ACTION ITEM TODAY, MARCH 25.

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Immigration lawyers concerned about scrutiny, civil rights for green card and visa holders Some immigration lawyers are expressing concern and caution for travel following two recent cases of people with legal status being detained, or deported, after arriving at Boston Logan Airport.

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In all this insanity, let's not forget. #BlackLivesMatter

Heart-rending, yet hopefully book about foster care, found friends, and family

4. Select "Send feedback."
5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text.
6. Select "Inaccurate content."
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in whatever you want, e.g., "It's the Gulf of Mexico. Don't bend to a fascist.”

Google has actually changed the Gulf of Mexico name. A little act of resistance from a comment on an NPR story.
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. Gulf of America shows up at the top.
3. Click on the three dots to the right.

This book will make you love soccer. And life. A heart squeezing tale of a boy who strives to live up to his role models: Lionel Messi, and his dad, who is dying of ALS.

A love story for the ages, a love story for our time, this time.

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Possibly this think tank has never been inside a Costco. Else they would realize how nonsensical their proposal was.

Seattle Judge Blocks Trump’s Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship (Gift Article) A federal judge in Seattle has issued a temporary order halting the president’s plan.

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“ This is a blatantly unconstitutional order. Where were the lawyers when this decision was being made?"

KKK distributes flyers in Kentucky telling immigrants to ‘leave now’ Documents, including phone number and invitation to ‘join us’, distributed same day Trump took office

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And here we are.

The Bishop Who Pleaded With Trump: ‘Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?’ (Gift Article) Bishop Budde locked eyes with President Trump and made a plea for mercy — and the war over spiritual authority in America was ignited anew.

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Look for them at your public library. So good. Every one is moving.

Books for children can change the world, one person at a time.

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Love Moving Finger. One of my favorites.

I'm listening to Midwinter Murder, which starts with Three Blind Mice! I just finished listening to Black Coffee for the first time. It's a little funny because this is the first time I'm seeing repeated material, because it happens so often. Even so, it was very enjoyable.