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  • Family Crafting and Writing for Early Literacy


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    When we present ECRR-based storytimes, we demonstrate five everyday practices that are important for children’s cognitive, physical, and social development.  These practices- Talk, Sing, Read, Write, Play- promote brain, gross and fine motor growth, the foundation upon which children’s future learning depends.  ...
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  • Library News: NovelNY library consortia picks up Gannett Newstand Complete — it includes the Ithaca Journal


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    I am pleased to announce that, beginning July 1, 2013 NOVELNY will over statewide access to Gannett Newstand Complete (ProQuest).  This database: Contains over 85 Gannett newspapers, 6 of which are New York newspapers.  These include the Ithaca Journal, Poughkeepsie Journal, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, ...
    4 days ago

  • Financial Literacy: Ideas for a Science of Good Government


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    Ideas for a Science of Good Government 1883 by Hon. Peter Cooper, LL.D. COIN AND PAPER CURRENCY “ THE CAUSE AND CURE OF NATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL DISTRESS IN THE UNITED STATES. To the Producing Classes in the Union : The … Continue reading → go to the CyberPlayGround for complete article.
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  • 80s Music – Songs Of Disenchantment


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    My daughter is doing a school project dealing with music’s social impact. The students are being asked to pick a decade and research songs from that period, while looking at the social issues people faced at that time. She chose to look at the 80s and her preliminary inquiry brought up the cold war, nuclear ...
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  • Bookworm’s Nook: “I like the brainy, self sufficient, independent women who can do it all …”


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    Bookworm’s Nook a writer’s perspective Hello and welcome, Ey Wade!! Would you like to share a bit about yourself? I am a caged in frustrated author of thought provoking, mind bending e-Books, an occasional step-in parent, a fountain of knowledge, and I’m ready to share. I write what I would like to say and I ...
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  • Grants Available to Assist in Family Learning


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    To reach long-sought goals of high educational achievement for all students, there must be stronger collaboration between schools and families. The National Center for Family Literacy and Toyota are partnering to promote such efforts, beginning with a grant program for communities. Additional details below and ...
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  • Reading Progress In Children Hindered By E-Books And Kindles


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    The number of young digital readers has doubled in recent years, which means in time there may be a generation of kids who will avoid picking up a “real” book altogether in favor of screen devices. Although the conveniences of e-readers, iPads, and Kindles permit for reading various genres of e-books, comics, and ...
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  • Reflections on a Scene (or Two)


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    We don’t write about sports very much here at NCN and today will be no different.  After all, what is there to say here.  The photograph pictures the Miami Heat’s  four time MVP LeBron James about to take the Chicago Bulls’ Jimmy Butler to the basket.  The only suspense is whether it will be a three point ...
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  • Picture Postcards: A chalkboard in Kazakhstan


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    Today’s photo that is related to language, reading and literacy was taken by our contributor in Kazakhstan, Celia. She says, it is a chalkboard “Filled with lessons in Kazakh grammar, this classroom chalkboard demonstrates the cursive Cyrillic script used for everyday Kazakh. Although the language was first ...
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  • Fast and painless way to better #mental arithmetic? Yes, there might actually be a way


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    In the future, if you want to improve your ability to manipulate numbers in your head, you might ...
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  • Library seeks volunteers for the 2013 Adult Summer Reading Program


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    Volunteer Opportunity! The Santa Ana Public Library is seeking volunteers for its 2013 Adult Summer Reading Program. Help promote adult literacy by supporting a program that rewards reading books over the summer! he program starts from June 17 and runs through July 27. Interested volunteers can pick up an application ...
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  • “btw, if your goal is not simply to get people to open-mindedly consider evidence using their own…”


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    “btw, if your goal is not simply to get people to open-mindedly consider evidence using their own powers of reason — if you just want to make them believe something, who cares how— you are not a science communicator; you are a propagandist” – Dan Kahan, What is to be done? Reposted from ...
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  • Allure, Disney Remind Us We’re Not Thin Enough


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    Is it any wonder that in the United States approximately 20 million women suffer from an eating disorder at some time in their life? Or that “by age 6, girls especially start to express concerns about their own weight or shape.” Up to sixty percent of elementary school girls are concerned about becoming too fat. ...
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  • Webcast: Examining the Scientific Basis Around Exercise and Diet Claims


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    Tim Noakes is the Director of UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine , Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Science, University of Cape Town and Professor, Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sports Science, University of Cape Town. Tim examines some questions on science and ...
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  • What Close Reading Actually Means


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    by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education What is close reading? As I said in my previous blog post, whatever it is it differs from a personal response to the text. Here is what the Common Core ELA Standards... The post What Close Reading Actually Means appeared first on TeachThought . Related posts: ...
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  • 15 Reasons Why You Should Participate In Accio Books


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    1. Because you really don’t need five copies of the Deathly Hallows… We all went a bit overboard when it was finally released, but in retrospect, one copy- perhaps two- is plenty for one person. Why not let less fortunate children experience the magic of Harry Potter? 2. Because let’s face it: your books are ...
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  • Operation HOPE and the Gallup-HOPE Index Cited in U.S. Senate Resolution for Financial Literacy Month, 2013


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         Operation HOPE, the organization that helped to pioneer financial literacy as U.S. federal policy in January, 2008, as then President George W. Bush signed an Executive Order inspired by our on-the-ground work, is proud to once again have its work cited amongst U.S. policy makers. The U.S. ...
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  • A Teacher-Leader Testimonial on our work from Operation HOPE South Africa


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          Good Afternoon Mr John Bryant  I do hope that I find you well. I would like to thank you for sparing your time and effort to come and address my learners at Sandtonview Combined School, on Monday the 22rd of April 2013. Your presentation was so inspiring to me as the Educator/Teacher ...
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  • Subjective Probabilities, Ratings, Handicappers, and Open Access Online Scientific Literature


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    In a previous post I proposed an iterative process that can be used sequentially add information to the rating of research proposals, providing quantitative results. This post extends that method to show how information on the source of the proposal and the source of the review can be used to improve the results. It ...
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  • ACRL 2013 Conference Notes: On Creating a Culture of Assessment


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    ACRL Panel Session Topic: Creating a Culture of Assessment: Determinants of Success Date: Friday, April 12, 2013, 8:30am Since I did the preconference on assessment earlier, I figured this would be a nice addition to my learning experience. Plus, the preconference presenters did recommend it. On defining a ...
    2 weeks ago

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