CPS unveils new reading program

Chicago Defender;  August 18, 2001 ;   Ruklick, Joe;   485 words ...CPS unveils new reading program As Mayor Richard Daley's...environment." The School Board created a new reading specialist position for teachers...Scott, Board president said. "This new reading initiative is our first step in following...

District 220 introduces new reading curriculum.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  May 16, 2002 ;   Fuller, James;   352 words ......Barrington Unit District 220 school officials announced a new reading program and math emphasis for the coming school year Wednesday...a community forum, said elementary schools will implement new reading and language arts curricula next year. For the first time...

New reading and film for the ecophile

Plenty;  August 1, 2008 ;   Hack, Tobin;   239 words ...GREEN MEDIA New reading and film for the ecophile Garbage Warrior Directed by Oliver Hodge, Open Eye Media garbagewarrior.com, $24.98 Irresistibly irreverent...

Penn Manor students object to new reading program

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  September 17, 2003 ;   John D. Taylor, Correspondent;   541 words ......the story. She said the goals of the new reading program are flawed. Citing how Penn...year's scores and how she believed the new reading program was instituted to remedy this...with reading. She told the board the new reading program does more harm than good because...

Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading

The Middle East Journal;  July 1, 2005 ;   Wadud, Amina;   787 words ...Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading, by Nimat Hafez Barazangi. Gainesville, FL: University Press...Index to p. 172. $59.95. Women's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading makes a valuable contribution to the Islamic scholarship-activism...

Revolutionary fiction and fictional revolution: a new reading of The...

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics;  January 1, 2003 ;   Jacquemond, Richard;   132 words ......Children of Gabalawi), has provoked polemics among traditional and modernist intellectuals, each group defending its turf. This new reading, based on Bourdieu's sociology of literary production, views the novel as representing the position of its author in the Egyptian...

Input needed on new reading group

The Northern Echo;  January 22, 2007 ;     109 words ...THE public is being asked their views on how a new reading group should be run.Two meetings will be held for potential members of the group at Knaresborough Library.County councillor Chris...

Some teachers see problems with new reading program

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 1, 2003 ;   JENNIE TUNKIEICZ;   574 words ...Some teachers see problems with new reading program Effectiveness and lack of resources are questioned...survey by the Racine Education Association on the district's new reading program revealed significant discontent. Dennis Wiser, REA...

Soc: Coppell signs new Reading contract

AAP Sports News (Australia);  March 27, 2007 ;     138 words ...AAP Sports News (Australia) 03-27-2007 Soc: Coppell signs new Reading contract LONDON, March 26 AFP - Steve Coppell has signed a two-year contract with Reading to further his tenure as manager of the...

Economy shows 'healthy' growth; New reading indicates rise of 3.8% in...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  February 26, 2005 ;   ASSOCIATED PRESS;   329 words ......previously estimated- an encouraging sign that the business expansion was firmly entrenched at the start of the new year. The new reading on gross domestic product, released Friday by the Commerce Department, was better than the government's initial calculation...

New reading study seeks the kids' view

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 20, 1988 ;   Linda Lenz;   290 words ......Principal Karl Siewers. Children's perceptions of what goes on in school are being reported to schools as part of Illinois' new reading assessment program, which began last spring with the testing of all third-, sixth- and eighth-graders. Generally, scores on...

Third-graders will be getting new reading test

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 8, 1996 ;     131 words ...The state Department of Public Instruction plans to give Wisconsin third-graders a new reading test designed to give a better picture of how well children read. Since the test was first administered in 1989, the percentage...

Why Don't the People of the Book Have a Canon? Gathering a New Reading...

Forward;  January 28, 2000 ;   Stavans, Ilan;   787 words ...Stavans, Ilan Forward 01-28-2000 Why Don't the People of the Book Have a Canon? Gathering a New Reading List for a New Century Samuel Johnson said that we are less in need of discovering new truths than of remembering old ones. He...

Stoughton to test two new reading programs

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  August 30, 2007 ;   BRIAN BENSON;   249 words ......students in kindergarten through fifth grade return to school in Stoughton on Sept. 5, they will be experimenting with two new reading programs. "We hope to gain a state-of-the-art reading program with balanced literary passages that develop good literary skills...

New reading test for schools

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 13, 1988 ;   Linda Lenz;   502 words ......persuasive essay, said Kerins. Testing often determines what is taught and how. With this in mind, designers of Illinois' new reading test wrote questions that stand as prompts for state-of-the-art reading instruction. David Pearson, the test's chief author...