From: mlgav
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:39:26 -0800 (PST)

Study Links Drop in Test Scores November 19, 2007
  
  Study Links Drop in Test Scores to a Decline in Time Spent Reading
 NYTimes By MOTOKO RICH
    Harry Potter, James Patterson and Oprah Winfrey?s book club
 aside, Americans ? particularly young Americans ? appear to be reading
 less for fun, and as that happens, their reading test scores are
 declining. At the same time, performance in other academic disciplines like
 math and science is dipping for students whose access to books is
 limited, and employers are rating workers deficient in basic writing skills.
  That is the message of a new report being released today by the
 National Endowment for the Arts, based on an analysis of data from about two
 dozen studies from the federal Education and Labor Departments and the
 Census Bureau as well as other academic, foundation and business
 surveys. After its 2004 report, ?Reading at Risk,? which found that
 fewer than half of Americans over 18 read novels, short stories, plays or
 poetry, the endowment sought to collect more comprehensive data to build
 a picture of the role of all reading, including nonfiction.
   
  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/arts/19nea.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

   
   
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  mary gavlik
  library media specialist
  chuckey-doak middle school
  afton, tn
  423-787-2038


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
? Monty Python skit
       
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