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We are the first major conference to hit the Big Easy since Katrina and the city is determined to show us all they are ready for business. Everyone at the hotels and restaurants constantly tell us how happy they are to have us here, thanking us for bringing our conference here despite all the [...]

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I actually completed the reading of SINS OF THE FATHERS by Chris Lynch a couple of days ago and just wanted some time to ponder what I would say about it. I had a sneaky feeling as soon as I saw the book that it would be about the scandals that have rocked the [...]

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Completed two books today thanks to the miracle of audio. They have an interesting connection. But then all books seem interconnected to me in some way, shape, or form. One of the things that separates avid readers (like us) from reluctant readers is the ability to see connections between and among texts. [...]

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Had lunch with the incoming VP of NCTE (don’t we love using these codes in education), Kylene Beers, today. We were talking about the chapter I am writing for a collection she is editing with Linda Rief and Bob Probst on adolescent literacy. I think we finally settled on my chapter being entitled [...]

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CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS is a guilty pleasure of mine. When a book arrives in a box and it short and funny, that book generally rises to the top of the stack. I get a great feeling of accomplishment when I can breeze through a book and move on to another, especially with the stack [...]

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