A graphic showed up on Instagram recently containing an interesting factoid about the Gross Domestic Product of the United States. Pretty amazing, right? Actually, not as amazing as it seems. I did a little digging and found what is likely to be the source of this: a USA Today article from 2019, which includes this … Continue reading Shades of the Truth

It's axiomatic that reading to young children is A Good Thing. But how do we determine how often parents do this? One technique is to simply ask them. Here are the results of a few studies that did this: A Pew Research Center study suggests that "half of all parents with children under 12 (50%) … Continue reading Reading to Children