Sasha Grey Reads to Elementary-School Kids in Compton Sasha Grey spent November 2nd reading to the young students of Emerson Elementary school. She'd be more well-known to their parents, though: Sasha Grey is a...
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The cramped offices of Toper, Macedonia’s leading publisher of reference works, are a shrine to the book. Thickset tomes – mainly translations from the English – are strewn everywhere. The proud owners show us their latest crop: two beautifully bound, quality paper...
One in three can’t read That is the statistic for Hay. That ain’t right. " “Illiteracy in London's schools is a scandal Books might be aplenty at Hay, but one in three of the capital's pupils don't own a...
The following article written by me has been published in the May 2010 issue of the monthly Himal Southasian magazine, published from Nepal. "There is pure delight in the oral tradition of storytelling. Children...
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Learning and Playing a Musical Instrument Improves Reading Children who learn to play a musical instrument may have an advantage when it comes to reading. Professor Nina Kraus of Northwestern University in...
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Shirin Shirin over at Asia Times blow up Kerala as a rosy, rosy state in India from where the world leaders can take some cue in surviving the economic crisis. Obviously he has cited the examples of education, health care and other social indices which we have heard quite a...
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"Twenty miles north of Tampa, Fla., turning east on Hwy 52, flatwoods of evergreens and monotony give way to rolling hills turned cattle land and valleys that hold December morning mists and wax nostalgic for...
"Presidential candidate Ibrahim Ismail (Ibra) on Sunday attacked the current administration over what he said was a series of education “failures”. Noting a 5 per cent pass rate in GCSE O-level English in...
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"The fast-changing modern world is raising the living standards of billions in the South – China alone has lifted 400 million people out of poverty since the 1980s - but it is also risking the loss of many rich...
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Friday, April 4, 2008Shelter Resident Creates Libraries Inside San Francisco Shelters Without Funding !San Francisco has an abundance of talent, ideas, creativity and 'outof the box' thinking -- right inside of our own tax funded HomelessShelters. We have some great shelter...
In rural Bangladesh, eight years old is old enough to start putting food on the table. That was the first, but not last, surprise in my recent trip to a rural village in Bangladesh called Madhupur. Madhupur is...
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Fine, America’s fourth graders aren’t actually “illiterate” but we are falling behind other countries according to a story from AP.
The last time this test was given was in 2001 and since then our scores
have stayed flat while others have increased. Now we’re...
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A study published in a recent edition of the Medical Journal of Australia reporting that some 60 percent of Aborigines are chronic marijuana users brings home the urgency of this week's launch of Communities...
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Good news for children who have difficulty reading and writing, help is on its way.Updated December 5, 2007: Dyslexic children Project wins £3m funding!" A £3m programme to help dyslexic children who are...
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Forty per cent of children struggle to write their own name or to sound out letters to form simple words such as “dog” or “red” by the age of 5, government figures show.
The annual assessments of children’s progress during their first year in school also show...
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