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05/16/2013

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The Common Core Standards, the national academic standards for K-12 schools in the United States, have now been adopted by 47 of the 50 states…

03/19/2013

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03/18/2013

Only 1 out of 8 UK fathers read to their children.

And if that article makes you curious, the Hilary Mantel 'tempest in a teapot' source material can be found here. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies

Last summer at the festival in Hay-on-Wye, I was asked to name a famous person and choose a book to give them. I hate the leaden repetitiveness of these little quizzes: who would be the guests at your ideal dinner party, what book has changed your life, which fictional character do you . . .

02/17/2013

Reading literacy linked to high-paying jobs.

http://homes.yahoo.com/news/america-s-most-and-least-literate-cities-224612878.html

24/7 Wall St. reviewed the most and least literate cities in the country and here's the top 5 and the bottom 5 towns.

02/11/2013

Western Educational Consultants- Response To Intervention Specialists: Serving AZ, NV, UT, CA

02/09/2013

Two articles popped up today about reading BIG books. One was book specific, suggesting students need to read "Atlas Shrugged" before graduation ....

John Goedde can try to laugh it off all he wants. But his idea to make Idaho high schoolers read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” is a keeper. I’ll go Goedde one better. Every high school kid in America should have to read this tome in a dark room by candlelight and then pass a test on it in order to gr...

02/09/2013

The other was just about the joys of big books.
Do you have a size preference? Chapman does mention that if you are loving a book, certainly bigger is better as the end is farther away.

I recently started Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables," which most people seem to prefer in movie or musical theater form if only because those take less time. You can get the story in under three hours instead of taking who knows how long to plow through the 1,232-page Penguin edition.

02/06/2013

3rd grade literacy. Promote or retain? If the first three years of school haven't worked, what does repeating a year do for students? Do you support promotion or retention?

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Flunked, retained, held back. Whatever you call it, increasing numbers of states are not promoting students who are struggling to read at the end of third grade.

01/31/2013

MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach (MVRC) is current with the new Common Core Standards that will be implemented soon. Contact us to learn more about MVRC.

http://www.schools.utah.gov/core/Parents/coreStandardsPamphlet.aspx

01/30/2013

The Chief Medical Officer in Scotland is calling for higher literacy rates, calling literacy the "key to lifting children from poverty."

SCOTLAND’S chief medical officer is calling for more to be done to drive up literacy standards and help lift more children out of poverty.

01/26/2013

How well are students reading? Depends on their social class. See the latest report, breaking down math and reading by social class.

"Our advantaged kids are doing as well as anybody in the world at reading, and in math, disadvantaged kids have improved more than almost any other country," says the author of a new paper