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Grant puts books in kids’ hands over summer

By admin | Published: June 17, 2012

yet there has been concern that the program’s first-graders can lose some of those gains during the summer. That’s why DuBose and other teachers and administrators are excited about a grant project that is providing about 250 children in the district with 12 books to keep and read this summer. “This was the initiative of [...]

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Pitney Bowes Inspires Love of Learning through the Share the Message: Read Program

By admin | Published: May 31, 2012

STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI), in partnership with the national nonprofit Reading is Fundamental (RIF) and employee volunteers, has completed another successful year in providing children in underserved school districts with free books and meaningful literacy and education programming. “we increased our commitment this year, and, more importantly, are showing the tremendous difference that [...]

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How to Use Computers to Teach Children to Learn to Read

By admin | Published: March 14, 2012

During the past 20-30 years, computers became omnipresent within most traditional school classrooms. Yet, even as school districts dedicated an increasing amount of their technology resources to installing classroom computers, educators were often at a loss about how to use this new technology to teach. Teachers already had books, visual aids, and tactile materials specially [...]

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California Schools Scrambling To Add Lesson Plans About Gay Americans

By admin | Published: October 17, 2011

California public schools are desperately trying to figure out how to incorporate lesson plans highlighting the contributions of individuals who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender in light of July’s passage of a bill requiring them to do so. “I’m not sure how we plug it into the curriculum at the grade school level, if [...]

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Higher reading standards mean fewer Whatcom County schools pass testing

By admin | Published: September 8, 2011

The latest round of test results has been mixed for Whatcom County schools, but what looks like bad news actually belies the progress being made by local students. Several Whatcom County high schools performed well in tests, making “adequate yearly progress,” which means they met or exceeded a multitude of state benchmarks. Those benchmarks are [...]

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