Newkirk, Thomas

"Offers practices and strategies that help kids and teachers alike develop a more resilient approach to embarrassment."--Publisher.

Questions the popular belief that violent prose written by boys in school is cause for alarm, drawing from interviews with boys and girls to argue that video games, movies, sports, and other forms of popular culture inspire creativity in boys rather than aggression.

Discusses six strategies to improve literacy education in American classrooms, with suggestions that include narrowing the curriculum focus, balancing reading and writing, and more.

The author discusses slow reading and presents six ways that slow readers can get more out of the text.