Every student in schools run by the Delhi government will gain the basic ability to read by November 14, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said Saturday, while unveiling the road map of the Delhi government’s ‘Chunauti Scheme’. The movement was launched by the AAP government to improve the learning ability of students, after a recent […]
On the rare occasion that the staff in our English department surface from their marking pile long enough to enjoy a cup of tea together, I’ll ask everybody what they’re reading. The answer is usually the same: nothing. Teachers only read the bits of books they have to teach – and even then it’s often […]
Two teenage boys found employment at a grocery store in Omaha, Nebraska. The older boy, from a poor family devastated by the Great Depression, bred and sold hamsters for spare change. The younger boy, grandson of the store owner, had been delaying college and working odd jobs, like selling chewing gum and coke bottles door […]
If I had to pick one thing that makes the biggest difference in the quality of any person’s education, the quality of their life, really, it would be reading. And I’m not really talking about basic literacy—not about the ability to read—I’m talking about reading for pleasure, to satisfy curiosities, to understand how people work […]
