Sadly, the most recent horrors are not an aberration.

The administration is celebrating the brain drain and helping the real swamp.

The president has had some experience with poorly run companies and excuse-making.

Whatever the opposite of it is, that’s what Democrats should be running on.

Maybe there's a reason the Donald Trumps and Paul Manaforts and Michael Cohens of the world have felt emboldened lately.

This is a whole different category of alleged impropriety.

Any economic improvements aren’t helped by his actions.

President Trump’s policies haven’t helped his campaign promise.

Maybe his comments on religion apply to his boss.

We are all direct witnesses to Trump’s public selling out of U.S. democracy.

Many of the changes are simply worse for the economy.

Maybe they need a new assignment.

A bipartisan tax proposal could signal a shift in the GOP’s business-first focus.

Democrats' message that not everyone is equally benefiting from the spoils of this economic recovery has resonance.

Andreas Georgiou offered an honest accounting of Greece’s financial situation. He’s still paying for it.

Studies prove that resettlement benefits communities as a whole. So why are some governors still balking?

Whatever meager gains Trump’s trade deals represent hardly look worth the pain we endured getting here.

Every single one of them is supposed to be exercising oversight of the executive branch.

A new policy is keeping hundreds of families from obtaining visas

It’s another way in which the president’s supposedly narrowly focused tariffs have trickled down.

Americans have not only health risks but also economic fears.

Trump’s not used to consequences, but he’s also not immune.

We won’t get better outcomes with a government that repeatedly overpromises and underdelivers.

Young medical students and health-care workers simply want to keep contributing in the only home they know.

Reopening the country may be bad from a public health standpoint, but the president is pushing for it anyway.

Tax cuts are the GOP’s all-purpose remedy. Even for the coronavirus.

Trump's own industry — leisure and hospitality — saw all its job gains since 1988 wiped out.

It’s rather unfortunate that the best some of us can do in a time of a global pandemic is to stay at home in order to help. Quarantines for that matter, are tough challenges for the regular person. However, they don’t have to feel like an unproductive slog, why not treat yourself to some self-improvement […]

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Blast from the Past: This blog entry was first issued on June 30, 2014 and was reissued on March 28, 2020. As I re-introduce this piece, we are sheltering in place as is so much of the world. That means schools are closed in many places and teachers and parents are concerned about what is being lost from children's education. As with many of you, I've been trying to help protect children's learning during these fraught times. Which brings us to today's blog entry, this one about how I taught my own children to read at home.

Last week, I began a multi-part series on how I taught my daughters to read. My oldest daughter wryly replied to that entry, suggesting I could have saved a lot of pixels if I had just said that I hired a tutor…. And her son who just had his third birthday (and who did not read that entry) informed me that his goal for being three years old was to read words.

So far, I have explained the literacy environment, print awareness, and sight word teaching that were part of teaching my daughters to read, but phonics also played an important role.

Previously, I described how I taught my daughters about print, sight vocabulary, phonological awareness,

The world lost an incredible talent with the death of Tomie dePaola. 

Establishing daily and weekly routines provides a structure for learning at home. Parents and children know how the day will unfold; routines create predictability and also anticipation for the fun and comforting things that will happen throughout the day. It can be helpful to identify a learning theme to explore together over the course of two weeks. You'll find a sample daily schedule below, with ideas for how to bring in the theme into every part of the day, from breakfast to read alouds to art and science activities. 

This month’s school closures have forced families to become teachers at home overnight. 

Yesterday, I helped a parent find books for her five-year old whose dog had just died. I suggested Judith Viorst’s The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (Atheneum) in which a child remembers the best things about his much missed and greatly loved cat.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I have a feeling I’m not alone. My cabin fever is getting worse the longer I’m staying home. The only thing keeping me sane is a pile of books that stimulate lots of ideas and inspire various activities. I’ve just gone through some recent books for kids and thought I’d share a few thoughts about how books can encourage creativity and help build a sense of community, right there at home.  

The world lost an incredible talent with the death of Tomie dePaola. 

Digital vs paper: ink on paper may still have the advantage In a recent edition of Scientific American, Ferris Jabr took a look at how technology is affecting the way we read and the differences between reading on screens and …

My favorite number at the first TOC buchreport in Berlin on April 23rd was 20, as in 20% of the 2.4 million ebook buyers in Germany in 2012 had not bought any books in the previous twelve months, according to …

Perhaps you’ve also wondered why the publishing industry produces and distributes all the major climate science information available but doesn’t read it. If it did, publishing could become the standard bearer for global reduction of carbon footprints. This business challenge …

O’Reilly has been publishing books since 1986, but I’ve often said that we consider ourselves more of a technology transfer company than a typical publisher. Twenty years after our first book, Unix in a Nutshell, we realized that the insights …

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