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Comics Instead of Textbooks?

Jacob Devaney | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Book News, Transmedia, Education, Scholastic, Children, Children's Books, Comics, Books, Teachers, Education Reform, Learning, Graphic Novels, Video, Books News

Learning is one of the most empowering things a person can do with their life and can be quite fun, yet the mediums used in classrooms are dated and have caused students to think that learning is drudgery.

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Teaching Software Flooding Into New Jersey Classrooms

| Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Asbury Park Middle School, School Technology, Video, Scholastic, Teaching Software, New Jersey Schools, Scholastic Inc, Technology in Schools, High-Tech Classrooms, Read 180, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. A computer voice guides 12-year-old Amir Accoo to spell the words he hears through his...

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Hungry for More: The Hunger Games Misses the Mark on Teen Violence

Tim King | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Suzanne Collins, Youth Violence, Education, Katniss Everdeen, Young Adult Literature, Youth, Scholastic, The Hunger Games Movie, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Teen Violence, Kidlit, School Bullying, American Library Association, Books News

By focusing on action at the expense of introspection, The Hunger Games misses an opportunity to teach a real lesson about cyclical violence, the role we all play in perpetuating it, and our responsibility to make the right decisions.

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Why Is Miss Grundy So Sad? It's Complicated.

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Education News, Michelle Rhee, Chris Christie, Teacher Survey, No Child Left Behind, MetLife Survey, Tenure, Education Recession, Standardized Tests, Recession, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Scholastic, Teacher Sentiment, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Teachers, Gates Foundation, Education News

For the last four years, Beth Sanders has taught ninth and 11th-grade social studies at Tarrant High School in Birmingham, Ala., a school where many s...

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Private School Children Learn Skills to Manage in a Complex World

Ramaa Reddy Raghavan | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Mindfulness Meditation, Education, Social and Emotional Learning, Mindup, Scholastic, Mindfulness, Private Schools, Education News

Founded in 1893, Brown School is one of the few private schools to integrate mindfulness -- the practice of cultivating awareness, attention, acceptance and non-judgement -- into its entire school curriculum.

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National Book Award Finalists Get Grilled by Teens (PHOTOS)

Rocco Staino | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Teen Books, Scholastic, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Children's Books, National Book Foundation, Gary Schmidt, Slidepollajax, David Levithan, Young Adult Books, National Book Award Nominees, National Book Awards, Teenagers, Books News

With the aid of technology, students from around the country were able to join kids from New York City area schools in a Teen News Conference with the five finalists for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.

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YA Authors Share Their Fave Books As Teens

| Lauren | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Scholastic, Ya Fiction, Zora Neale Hurston, Barbara Michaels, Harper Lee, Teen-Read-Week, Cecil Castellucci, Kim Harrington, Elizabeth Eulberg, Coe Booth, To Kill a Mockingbird, High School News

To help celebrate Teen Read Week, our friends at Scholastic talked to famous authors to find out what books they loved when they were teenagers. Have ...

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YA Authors Share Their Fave Books As Teens

oomscholasticblog.com | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Teen Read Week, Harper Lee, Scholastic, Fiction, Susan Cooper, Maggie-Stiefvater, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jeff Hirsch, Young Adult Fiction, High School News

Coe Booth, author of Tyrell and Bronxwood (September 2011), chose Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. "I read this book so many times ...

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Taylor Swift Gives Back

AP | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Video, Scholastic, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Charity, Taylor Swift Scholastic, Celebrities Give Back, Celebrity Charities, Celebrity News

READING, Pa. — Taylor Swift wants children in the Pennsylvania city of Reading (REHD'-ing) to hit the books – and she's made that easier b...

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The Whole Coal Story

Carl Safina | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Mercury Pollution, Climate Change, Mercury Emissions, Mountaintop Removal, Coal Industry, Clean Coal, Scholastic, Green News

When you realize coal's effects on health and our environment, coal is exceptionally costly. If these costs were included in the price of coal, cleaner energy technologies would become very competitive.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Commerce... and Other Scholastic Satires

Josh Golin | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Commercialization, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Scholastic News, Campaing for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Brand Jamming, Scholastic, Corporate Media, Greenwashing, Slidepollajax, Curriculum, Harry Potter, Chamber of Commerce, American Coal Foundation, Media News

If the trademark police are watching, let me be clear that the images you're about to see are parodies. Unfortunately, however, Scholastic's InSchool Marketing division is no joke.

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Controversy Over Scholastic Sponsorships Goes Beyond Coal

Huffington Post | Gabrielle Canon | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Education, Advertising to Children, Scholastic, Rethinking Education, American Coal Foundation, The Campaign for Commercial-Free Chidhood, Environmentalism, Teacher-Resources, Coal, Greenpeace, Education News

Amidst heavy criticism over a "pro-coal" teaching tool called "The United States of Energy," Scholastic Corporation announced in a statement released...

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Guess Who’s Exhibiting At BookExpo America For The First Time?

paidContent | Laura Hazard Owen | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Bea, BookExpo America, Apple, Scholastic, Macmillan, Borders, Random House, Disney, Book Group, Bookexpo, Amazon, Books News

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), which almost never appears at industry conferences unless it is doing the hosting, will exhibit this year at BookExpo America, the...

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How Do We Get Boys Interested In Reading?

Charles London | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Literacy, Illiteracy, Scholastic, Litworld, Pam-Allyn, Boys Reading, HUnger Games, 39 Clues, Captain Underpants, Library, Education News

The fact is that boys are reading. Just like girls, boys are hungry for stories that speak to them, that excite their imaginations and reflect their experiences.

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Scholastic’s Big Coal Mistake

nytimes.com | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Scholastic Mistake, Scholastic, Children's Books, American Coal Foundation, Coal Industry, Greenhouse Gases, The United States of Energy, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Books News

Children’s books and other educational materials produced by the publisher Scholastic reach about 90 percent of the nation’s classrooms. With this...

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You are What You Read

Earl Martin Phalen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reach Out and Read, Reading, Earl Martin Phalen, Scholastic, Literacy, Education News

Books are the cornerstone of education -- and so much more. The first stories children read are the ones that help mold them into the adults they will become.

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Hail to the Incoming Superintendent

Larry Strauss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sid Thompson, Lausd-Superintendent, Lausd, Scholastic, Utla, Superintendent Ramon Cortines, Roy Romer, John-Deasy, Ruben Zacarias, Los Angeles News

The new super, John Deasy, calls himself a reformer, which these days means he wants to re-form student test scores into teacher evaluation scores.

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Social Networking From Another Major Book Publisher

publishersweekly.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bookworm Site, Social Network Books, Major Publisher Social Network, Book Social Network, Scholastic, You Are What You Read, Social Network, Books News

Scholastic is releasing a new social networking site today, YouAreWhatYouRead.com, that lets people build a profile based on the five books that were ...

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How Has 'Hunger Games' Author Suzanne Collins' Life Changed?

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Kids Books, Scholastic, Collins Hunger Games, Childrens Books, Bookselling, Suzanne Collins, HUnger Games, Mockingjay, Books News

NEW YORK — As she worked on the final book of her "Hunger Games" trilogy, Suzanne Collins discovered that her life had changed. "I started to g...

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WIN A Signed Copy Of 'Mockingjay'

Sammy Perlmutter and Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Give-Away, Scholastic, Scholastic Books, Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins Books, Free Book, Suzanne Collins, HUnger Games, Mockingjay, Prize, Books News

Over 150 fans gathered Thursday morning to hear Suzanne Collins read from "Mockingjay," the final installment in the author's blockbuster "Hunger Game...

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Is 'Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire' A Rip-Off Of 'Willy The Wizard'? Author's Estate Sues Scholastic

The Bookseller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry Potter, Books, Harry Potter Lawsuit, Scholastic, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Willy the Wizard, Books News

The lawsuit, to be filed in a federal court in New York, claims that the company's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is "substantially similar" to J...

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17 Million Arabic Children's Books Exported From Scholastic

LA Times | Geraldine Baum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arabic Children's Books, Children's Books, Books, Scholastic, Arabic, Books News

Scholastic, the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, first weeded its list of thousands of titles down to 200 and later 80. ...

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The College Insider: Admissions Freak-Out #15: Fall Into the Gap (Year), But Check the Price-Tag First

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Harvard, College, Gap Year, The Wizard of Oz, University of Michigan, Dr. Seuss, Living, The College Insider, College Admissions, College Year, Scholastic, College Life, Healthy Living News

The pressurized lives some high school seniors have been leading can take a toll; they maintain their perfectionist momentum for the first year of college, or two, and then little cracks start to show up in the façade.

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'Captain Underpants' Is Back: 'P

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dav Pilkey, The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Bathroom Humor, Children's Books, Books, Scholastic, Book Publishing, Captain Underpants, Books News

NEW YORK — Break out the briefs and red cape, if you dare. More tales of "Captain Underpants" are coming. Author Dav Pilkey has agreed to write...

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'Hunger Games' Trilogy Final Book Will Be Called 'Mockingjay,' Due Out In August

USA Today | Bob Minzesheimer, Jocelyn McClurg, Carol Memmott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Mockingjay, Catching Fire, Scholastic, Book Publishing, YA Books, Children's Books, Books, HUnger Games, The Hunger Games, Mockingjay, Books News

Today, Scholastic reveals the title and cover of the last book in the series set in a dictatorship where teens are forced to fight to the death on TV....

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