read or die

My plan, I think, is going to be to focus on the evaluation part of teaching reading.  Considering the challenges that come with evaluating “Aesthetic reading”, and considering the insufficiencies of testing reading skill progress in any sort of homogenized, overarching manner designed to equally evaluate all students, I thought this would be an interesting and important issue with arguments for many approaches to solving this dilema.  Since I expect there to be so many varied and perhaps conflicting proposals for how best to evaluate reading, across grades, across districts, and across the nation, I figured it would be a good topic for a person like myself since I am very opinionated and critical- sometimes more-so than I ought to be I think.  Also, considering the idea behind this part of the class is to engage in discussion, a category such as this would instigate plenty of debate.

 I will be using sources like the BBC World News and the NEA homepage, but one source I have high hopes for is the link to Reading Today Daily, so I’ve included the link here: http://www.google.com/reader/view/  I think this should work.