Mapping Book Banning Resistance: Who is involved and what are they doing? (Part 1)

By Dr. Jason J. Griffith (Penn State University) and Dr. Stephanie F. Reid (University of Cincinnati)  As former English teachers and current teacher educators alarmed by widespread upticks in book-banning, we wondered how best to support educators in resisting censorship and preserving students’ right to read. We decided to visualize acts of resistance as reported

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Phonic Books: Phonics For Every Student and Every Curriculum Program

“Phonic Books are the best decodable books out there.”  —Barbara Steinberg, PDX Reading Specialist   Phonic Books is changing the way educators teach reading, one sound at a time. Developed by literacy experts and aligned with the Science of Reading, Phonic Books offers a wide range of truly decodable books—with ~90% of words within being decodable—making

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