New Reader’s Guide for Ordinary People: 50th Anniversary Edition by Judith Guest

We are pleased to share a new reader’s guide for the 50th-anniversary edition of Ordinary People by Judith Guest, featuring a new foreword by psychoanalyst and New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Amy Bloom. A Penguin Classic, Ordinary People introduced an original American voice when it was first published in 1976. The novel follows

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Mapping Book Banning Resistance: Working Together: Building Coalitions to Resist Book-Banning (Part 2)

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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Is Tech Harming Learning?: Listen to Educator & Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath on The Main Idea

Our children are struggling. Schools, once alive with human connection, are now dominated by screens and digital tools. The result is unmistakable: declining performance, fractured attention, and the slow erosion of rigorous thought. For the first time in recent history, children are falling behind previous generations on many key measures of cognitive development. In The

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