While some novels set in the past experiment with time, place and language, too often they appear to settle for a consistent and uncomfortable realism At the beginning of this year, I was intrigued by ...

School accountability and high-stakes testing have changed the face of public education. They will soon change teacher and administrator tenure as well. With two-thirds of the states granting lifetime ...

When people try too hard to find reasons to maintain something, there’s probably little reason to maintain it, a fact evident in your article “School Libraries Seek Relevance Through Virtual Access” ...

Much as I wanted to enjoy Super 8, I kept getting distracted by anachronisms. The film is set, specifically, in a small Ohio town in the summer of 1979, yet one of the kids compares an alien building ...