WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River Reports indicate that reading is down for many, book purchases are flat, and audiobooks are rising. Some have engaged in a back and forth about whether listening to audiobooks should classify as reading. I don’t have a dog in that race. Reading is reading, and listening is listening. Both are invaluable. One …
Marble Falls Not having made it through higher education except in starts and stops over a couple of years, I can’t pretend to be an expert in all of the ends and outs of the academy, as understood in the United States. Along with most Americans, though, I do understand the institutional claims …