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Can audiobooks be the great equalizer for students with learning differences?

  • April 25, 2019
  • William Weil
  • Research & Articles, Uncategorized

(eSchool News) Low reading ability is a major contributor to learning inequality in our schools. An estimated 26 million students have learning differences, including tens of thousands of students with dyslexia, a neurological condition that affects reading and related language-based…

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Direct Teaching of Vocabulary?

  • March 25, 2019
  • William Weil
  • Research & Articles

In a recent white paper from Stephen Krashen and Beniko Mason, published in the Journal of English Language Teaching, the authors strongly suggest that direct teaching of vocabulary is not as efficient as acquiring vocabulary via listening the stories, and…

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Is Listening to a Book Just as Good as Reading It?

  • January 11, 2019
  • William Weil
  • Research & Articles

(New York Times) In the Opinion essay “Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It,?” Daniel T. Willingham, a psychologist, compares the benefits of reading a book with the advantages of listening to one: A few years…

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Top 5 Digital Transformation Trends In Education For 2019

  • November 15, 2018
  • William Weil
  • Research & Articles

(Forbes) Let’s face it: the education sector—especially K-12 public school systems—aren’t usually the earliest adopters of new technology. Despite the fact that they’re equipping our children for the future, they don’t always move the fastest to get there. For that…

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Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?

  • October 29, 2018
  • William Weil
  • Research & Articles

(The New York Times) Our children aren’t being taught to read in ways that line up with what scientists have discovered about how people actually learn. It’s a problem that has been hiding in plain sight for decades. According to…

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We can’t become a nation of equal learners until we become a nation of readers

  • June 11, 2018
  • William Weil
  • Research & Articles

(The Hechinger Report) Despite the claims of those who propose to “disrupt” education with video lessons and a well-intentioned emphasis on STEM, reading remains the backbone of a real education. Unlike other species, humans use language as a kind of…

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Is listening to an audiobook the same as reading?

  • June 11, 2018
  • William Weil
  • Research & Articles

(Star Tribune) As a reader of a certain age, I have begun to take an actuarial view of my bookshelves. How many of these books am I really going to read before my own final chapter? With more and more…

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Nearly one-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks

  • March 9, 2018
  • William Weil
  • Research & Articles

(Pew Research Center) Americans are spreading their book consumption across several formats, and the use of audiobooks is rising. About three-quarters (74%) of Americans have read a book in the past 12 months in any format, a figure that has…

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