In Search of Quiet . . .

<>A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of speaking about literacy at Channel Thirteen's Celebration of Teaching and Learning in New York. For their educational blog, I wrote a few words, and also chatted on the panel about a problem I see, and I've been wanting to look at this in more depth. I'll begin here by excerpting a bit of the original post, but over the next weeks I want to develop the idea of quiet — in our minds, our lives, our reading. Quiet is becoming impossible to attain, because of </>