"Be a Sadist."

Rule #6 on Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing a short story: No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful thing...

Teaching kids to read using nonfiction works better.

Aha! Back in '07, I got all sorts of criticism for advocating teaching reading with nonfiction books — science, history, etc. — and now...

Why would the No Child Left Behind emphasis on math and reading leave less time to learn history?

I'm reading this Wall Street Journal article about new history history test scores: The overall lackluster performance is certain to re...

Fiction and nonfiction daddery.

Cameron Stracher has a new book called "Dinner With Dad." Here's some discussion of it: [H]e chronicles his path from a corp...

Audible Althouse #84.

It's a podcast. Evil birds, where not to meet men, using nonfiction books to teach kids to read, Mad Magazine, finding the mummified bo...

About that suggestion of mine that reading classes should use nonfiction books.

This post has really stirred people up . Look, my main point is efficiency . Kids need to learn to read, and they should also be learning s...

Don't know much about history...

... but know more than before. Hey, how did that happen if No Child Left Behind was supposedly diverting teaching resources away from histor...

The Amsterdam Notebooks—Page 18.

It's Day 18 of this 35 day project . ( The set thus far. ) After the Katten Kabinet:

What boys like to read.

Here 's an article in The Washington Post about teaching boys and girls to read. (Via Memeorandum .) I'm wading past the blather abo...