Weekend Reading: Public-Health Crises, Surfer Girls - New Yorker (blog)
If there's one tornado narrative to read now, this is it. “I was drawn to the cooler because it's so tightly focussed,” Dittrich told New Yorker contributor Paige Williams during a classroom discussion about the piece, a fact that accounts for much of
...Sat, 25 May 2013 14:11:04 GMT
Reading While Eating for May 24: It's Friday, Friday - TIME
It's the Final Countdown: The return of Arrested Development is nigh. On Sunday, 15 new episodes hit Netflix. Get prepared with this list of 20 hidden jokes from the show's first three seasons. (mental_floss). The Future of Fanfic: Fan fiction was once
...Fri, 24 May 2013 16:23:03 GMT
Students Perform Well Regardless of Reading Print or Digital Books - Science Daily (press release)
Of the participants, 88 percent said they had read books on laptops, netbooks or desktops while 51 percent said they had used an iPad, iPhone or iPod to read books. Additionally 36.1 percent said they used a cell phone to look at digital texts. When
...Fri, 24 May 2013 21:16:38 GMT
Reading Hayek in Beijing - Wall Street Journal
In the spring of 1959, Yang Jisheng, then an 18-year-old scholarship student at a boarding school in China's Hubei Province, got an unexpected visit from a childhood friend. "Your father is starving to death!" the friend told him. "Hurry back, and take
...Fri, 24 May 2013 22:24:22 GMT
First reading of student representative policy passes - Burlington Times News
A new policy to add a student representative to the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education passed its first reading Thursday. It was preceded by a bit of debate. Board members voted 4-3 in April to add a student representative. The student won't be
...Sat, 25 May 2013 19:28:44 GMT
Reading Royals come up short in bid to sweep Kelly Cup finals - WFMZ Allentown
The Reading Royals will have to wait at least one more night to clinch the Kelly Cup championship. The Stockton Thunder prevented a sweep by defeating the Royals 4-3 Friday night in Stockton, Calif. The Royals lead the best of seven series three games
...Sat, 25 May 2013 10:59:54 GMT
Seib & Wessel: What We're Reading Friday - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Charlie Cook (@CookPolitical) says Republicans are overplaying their hand in pursuit of scandals within the Obama administration: “By trying to turn everything into a scandal rather than saying Obama's policies are wrongheaded—and rather than fixing
...Fri, 24 May 2013 19:36:15 GMT
FCAT writing scores rise, third-grade reading marks up slightly from 2012 - Orlando Sentinel
Florida students wrote better essays on this year's FCAT than in 2012 and third-graders posted slightly higher marks on the state's key reading exam, scores released Friday show. The scores are the first wave of results from the 2013 administration of
...Fri, 24 May 2013 16:48:01 GMT