The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.
Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire.
Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.
People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.
It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.
Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged. . . [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.
If you are thinking about mistakes during games then you are not concentrating on what is important which is the next shot or the next cross or whatever you have to deal with in that game. The mental side of things is massive, probably the biggest.
Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn’t be able to do what I do today if they didn’t come to America. Everybody has an immigration story.