Sentences with phrase «nations of readers»

EBLIDA President, Klaus - Peter Böttger, declared that «Libraries (and public libraries in particular) have a major public interest mission in developing a strong and vibrant reading culture that forms nations of readers and a Europe of readers».

Particularly the laughs of his fellow Harvard piss - taker, Henry, at first, eventually expanding to love interests, kindred species, and then a nation of readers desperate for hard - cutting truth in humor - reality via absurdity.

Known for research based on classroom observations and analysis of reading materials, she has served as a consultant to the states of California and Texas regarding textbook adoption and the National Commission on Reading for Becoming a Nation of Readers.

These concerns led the National Academy of Education's Commission on Reading to issue the report entitled Becoming a Nation of Readers (BNR)(Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson, 1985).

The Commission on Reading's report Becoming a Nation of Readers (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson, 1985) recommends two hours of silent sustained reading a week, but increasing curriculum demands and the need to prepare students for standardized tests have made independent reading time a luxury in many classrooms.

Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading Richard C. Anderson, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Judith A. Scott, and Ian A.G. Wilkinson

Instead, we used a combination of four documents that synthesize and summarize current research related to reading acquisition: Becoming a Nation of Readers (Anderson et al., 1985); Beginning to Read (Adams, 1990); Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children (National Research Council, 1998); and Improving the Reading Achievement of America's Children: 10 Research - Based Principles (CIERA, 1998).

Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading.

Becoming a nation of readers.

[71] Richard C. Anderson, Elfrieda Hiebert, Judith Scott, and Ian Wilkinson, Becoming a Nation of Readers (Champaign, IL: Center for the Study of Reading: 1984).

Alexander Skipis, Managing Director, of the German Booksellers and Publishers Association said «Germany is a nation of readers.

It will be the first law in the world to promote reading as a lifestyle choice and to create a nation of readers.

- Becoming a Nation of Readers Research shows that shared picture book reading throughout the preschool years develops a range of critical early literacy skills, including -LSB-...] Full Description

Not exact matches

From its start as The Commerce of the Nation, a Chamber of Commerce organ, Canadian Business has become a trusted source for nearly 1.1 million readers.

Readers of NFU know that I give little credibility to any data out of China for I can not trust a nation that blocks the free flow of information over the Internet.

Readers of Solzhenitsyn's «Repentance and Self - Limitation in the Life of Nations,» which dared to defend as essentially correct the common feature of ordinary speech that depicts nations as capable of guilt, repentance, and a «spiritual life,» will understand why, as will viewers moved by Nelson's Mandela core message in the film InNations,» which dared to defend as essentially correct the common feature of ordinary speech that depicts nations as capable of guilt, repentance, and a «spiritual life,» will understand why, as will viewers moved by Nelson's Mandela core message in the film Innations as capable of guilt, repentance, and a «spiritual life,» will understand why, as will viewers moved by Nelson's Mandela core message in the film Invictus.

If any readers are tempted to think that post-Communist nations have a natural affinity for CST, Jonathan Luxmoore's excellent essay on the lack of social concern in the Polish church is sobering.

I challenge all readers to read the chapters preceding Isaiah 53 (chapters 41 thru 52) and you will see for yourself that the author of Isaiah is referring to the nation of Israel as the «suffering servant», not to the future messiah, and therefore, not to Jesus.

As with any edited collection, some chapters are better than others, but on balance, there is plenty here to reward readers who want a closer look at the role of religion in the particular places that make up this extremely varied nation.

Written in the muckraking tradition of Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death (1963) and Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation (2001), One Perfect Day takes readers on a tour through Bridezilla's homeland.

Admittedly, we do not know the intellectual and spiritual profile of TNR readers, but in a nation where 95 percent of the people say they believe in God and almost as many identify themselves religiously, it seems improbable that only 8 percent of the more than eighty respondents were «religious believers.»

Passages that were originally written for groups of people, and intended to be read and applied in a community setting (the nation of Israel, the various early churches, the first followers of Jesus), have been manipulated to communicate a personal, individual message... thus leading the reader away from the original corporate intent of the passage to a reaffirmation of the individualistic, me - centered, and consumerist tendencies of American religious culture.

One comment I'd like to advance is that we have (unfortunately) become a nation of no - readers.

This means there is no opportunity for the reader to make any meaningful comparisons about effectiveness of recent policy agendas to build the nation's food production and processing capacity and profitability.

Here are some of the best worst draft takes of all time, as selected by SB Nation NFL and by the readers.

Dear Abby: Your readers who have expressed concern about hungry children in their communities expose one of our nation's worst secrets.

In an interview with marketing magazine, The Drum, Mr Osborne said: «We are going to the name that the readers understand and I think it also speaks for the ambition of the paper, which is to not just look into London but also to look out to the nation.»

Despite this, the Daily Mirror remained loyal to Labour and urged its readers to vote for the party (now led by Michael Foot), condemning the Thatcher - led Tory government for its «waste of our nation», [38] condemning the rise in unemployment that Thatcher's Conservative government had seen in its first term in power largely due to monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation, though the government's previously low popularity had dramatically improved since the success of the Falklands conflict a year earlier.

However, one slight problem was that astute Sun readers might have noticed a pie chart in the piece showing 62 per cent of the nation seemed unbothered.

Russianoff's list of less - encumbered nation states is 30 countries long, though an asterisk guides readers to a footnote explaining that, «Nations with less than $ 10 billion in debt, of which we found 25, were excluded from this comparison as we felt this was a fair cut - off.»

Tadodaho Sid Hill, spiritual leader of the Onondaga Nation, and Lloyd Withers, of Syracuse, answered reader questions today in a live Q&A on the Onondaga County Legislature's upcoming vote to return Murphy's Island to the Nation.

A favorable PERB ruling would bring all of UC's nearly 6000 postdocs — about 10 % of the nation's total — into an international union that has already organized the UC system's 12,000 graduate teaching assistants, readers, and tutors into the Association of Graduate Student Employees / UAW.

Another notable attempt was in 2014 when, after a series of PR snafus, a dedicated «body issue» landed on newsstands across the nation, with Kathryn Budig gracing the cover and a feeble plea for readers to #loveyourbody.

Media Mikes has teamed up with Fox Searchlight Films to give (100) lucky readers and a guest the chance to be among the first to see one of the most anticipated films of the year, Nate Parker's «The Birth of a Nation.»

-- the courtroom profession that instantly defines the literal and moral limits of Hanna Schmitz's (Kate Winslet) imagination, and perhaps a nation's, in «The Reader»...

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Again, the reader is reminded that, while correlation is not causation, the introduction of consequential accountability in Texas and then across the nation coincided with impressive spikes in the performance of students in fourth - grade math, and in particular among the students of most concern to NCLB and the accountability movement more generally.

«Massachusetts has a long history of leading the nation in education reform, and we have an opportunity now to lead again in developing the competent readers our children's future and our country's future demand.»

The Dewitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund has announced a $ 2 - million gift to the Yale - New Haven Teachers Institute, one of the nation's oldest and most respected university - public school partnerships.

The latest example: Michael Fletcher, writing for the Washington Post on Tuesday, who misleads his readers with the following: «The $ 4.35 billion effort was enacted last year as part of the $ 787 billion economic stimulus plan, marking one of the largest federal expenditures ever on the nation's public schools.»

Readers can check out the rankings of 13,636 U.S. school districts, and see how students in each district compare to students in 25 other nations, in a Global Report Card available on the website of the George W. Bush Institute.

Readers of a certain age will recall that, early in his presidency, Reagan was confronted with a strike by the nation's air traffic controllers.

Nevertheless, it is particularly important for readers to know that Arizona has some of the smallest districts in the nation.

The rankings of 13,636 U.S. school districts can be found in the Global Report Card, available on the website of the George W. Bush Institute, where readers can see how students in each school district compare to students in 25 other nations.

But as Dropout Nation readers also know, Black and Latino children are also denied high - quality education because there are many within American public education who think lowly of them.

Mr. Fuller accepted a nation - wide challenge for school principals to read from bell to bell in honor of National Young Readers Week.

Last week, in celebration of Teacher Appreciation Month, we posted a series of questions to blog readers and members of DreamBox Nation to get you thinking about the people or...

Supporting every student to become a strong reader and writer is one of the priorities in the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE)'s new report, Excellence For All: How Tennessee Can Lift Our Students To Best In The Nation, that sets a collaborative vision for student achievement to continue over the next eight years.

As most Dropout Nation readers already know, the President - Elect, who won his office on a campaign of race - baiting as well as rank demagoguery against both documented and undocumented emigres, named Bannon, his former campaign manager and the former boss of media outlet Breitbart News Network, to serve as his senior counselor and top strategic adviser.

As Dropout Nation readers know by now, the Obama administration has granted waivers to 33 states allowing them to ditch the No Child Left Behind Act and the accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of strong reforms.