New reading books focus on phonics, vocabulary

Arlington Heights Post (IL);  March 11, 1999 ;     469 words ......Elementary School District 25 will use a new reading program next year, emphasizing basic...series. District 25 is adopting the new reading curriculum as part of a cycle in which...right about on target," Kurtz said. The new reading curriculum will cost $450,000 over a...

CPS unveils new reading program

Chicago Defender;  August 18, 2001 ;     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 ;     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...

VALPO SCHOOLS TO GET TWO NEW PRINCIPALS, NEW READING TEXTS

Post-Tribune (IN);  April 26, 1989 ;     315 words ......in Valparaiso Community Schools will return in the fall to new reading texts and some new or renovated classrooms. Two schools will...new media center, a developmental kindergarten room and a new reading lab. The art, music and administrative areas will be renovated...

Penn Manor students object to new reading program

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  September 17, 2003 ;     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 ;     700+ 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 ;     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 ;     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 ;     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...

ALGONQUIN AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY KICKS OFF NEW READING PROGRAMS

Sun Publications (IL);  September 16, 1998 ;     159 words ...The Algonquin Area Public Library is kicking off the school year with a new reading incentive program, the Reading Patch Club. The program will run through Memorial Day. Children through second grade may earn up...

New reading study seeks the kids' view

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 20, 1988 ;     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 ;     700+ 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...