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...Elementary School teacher-librarian Terri Nalls had a problem. Her students, 92% of them low income, couldn't read a stop sign let alone a book. She wondered if Mike Brumby, who ran the Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence, could help her buy a reading program called Accelerated Reader...
Part of the credit went to a new method of linking reading instruction with writing. But Accelerated Reader, by Renaissance Learning in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., was a huge hit with kids. Used in 51,000 U.S. schools, it's essentially a software program. A student doesn't get credit for reading a book before passing a test of anywhere from five to 20 questions...
Last year Tift schools shot up 14 points in statewide reading tests. At G.O. Bailey Elementary, Gladis Aguire, 8, went from not speaking a word of English and flunking first grade to being the top reader in her class a year later. Adults began wearing badges that say HEY, WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? Tammie Smith, principal at Northside Elementary, has parents coming in an hour before the start of school, "taking tests right alongside their kids...
...death of the author's mother when he was 17, a loss that left him feeling abandoned and needy for a woman's protective, all-forgiving love. "Bellow," Atlas remarks, "wasn't a nurturing person." On the evidence presented here, it does seem more pleasant to be Bellow's reader than his spouse...
...nation on the path to an unimaginably destructive war. Elsewhere, Stalin tightened his barbaric grip on the U.S.S.R., an expansionist Japan invaded China, and Spain plunged into prophetic civil war. Page by page (800 of them), this synoptic tour de force by a British historian propels the reader toward the inevitable cataclysms...