News from middle-grade mystery author Fleur Bradley. Also, book reviews and cat pictures...
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Summer Reading
Check out the results of this study done by Dominican University in several states (including CO) on the impact of summer reading. It sort of points out the obvious: summer reading improves academic scores, so libraries are important.
Still, interesting.
And a whole new reason to sit and read instead of mowing the lawn, which suits me just fine.
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ReplyDeleteDitto here. It's research :-)
ReplyDeleteMy kids schools and libraries used to have contests to encourage it.
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