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We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day... →
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.
If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.
It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we... →
I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current... →
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for... →
Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a... →
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising... →
I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes... →
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying... →