(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
So I am 9 chapters into Ready Player One by Austin Texas uber-geek Ernest Cline and I can already tell you that this is basically the Forrest Gump for Gen-X, only waaaay better since it is about us instead of those tedious Baby Boomers.
If you were a teen in the 1980s, played tons of Atari 2600 video games, saw it as your purpose in life to put the high score on your favorite arcade game, played Dungeons and Dragons, were a film geek and listened to lots of Rush, then this book is a missing piece of your soul. Cline wrote this book just for you, and Spielberg is currently filming the silver screen version.
If not, well you don’t know what you were missing.
Download now, read later, thank me after that. You are welcome in advance.
Jay P. Greene's Blog 
Anyone interested in discussing E.D Hirsch’s latest book?
“The book focuses on six persistent problems of recent US education: the over-testing of students; the scapegoating of teachers; the fadeout of preschool gains; the narrowing of the curriculum; the continued achievement gap between demographic groups; and the reliance on standards that are not linked to a rigorous curriculum.”
http://hepg.org/hep-home/ books/why-knowledge-matters
Happy Labor Day, O Speechless One.