Teaching reading is a legit skill. It doesn’t just happen because someone becomes a parent.
There are so many kids that are fluent — they can repeat letters, for instance — but can’t comprehend (i.e. the letters don’t mean anything to whether.)
But go off, Twitter.
The feud between Susan Sontag and Camille Paglia captured on camera here in 1993 (on public TV) is so painfully entertaining it's impossible to look away.
around the year 1500, medieval painter hieronymus bosch drew a person with sheet music written on their butt being tortured in hell.
500 years later, someone decided to transcribe and play the song. now, you can hear it too!
#LatestNews: Following a scathing review which described popular Kingston-based eatery South Avenue Grill as a "masterclass in classlessness", the restaurant swings back with CCTV footage, and an event breakdown of the night in question.👀
🎥: Contributed via South Avenue Grill
Was sent to Lorain Ohio at the same time of Ms. Toni Morrison’s birthday & pilgrammaged to her childhood home where there isn’t yet a marker or historic designation or museum for our foremother—so my literary family there is much work in this world for us to do.
This sculpture by Edgar Degas is known around the world as “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen...”
What’s less known is the remarkable life of the young girl who inspired it: Marie van Goethem.