Boys were found to be reading at a lower level than girls - but the What Kids Are Reading survey, which has been running for five years, says the gap has been narrowing.
The aim is to discover not what pupils know but how well they can manipulate what they have learned in reading, mathematics and science.
Some reading this may think: But what's the proof that the al Qaeda leader is still alive?
Measuring on a computer how much and how well students are reading is relatively easy, but what about testing problem-solving skills?
But what makes this book worth reading is the fact that the authors have taken as first principles for their Utopia the harsh truths of Darwinian capitalism: individuals and companies act in their self-interest, and markets guide that impulse through prices.
But reading coverage of Congress by my American colleagues what comes over is shame and embarrassment.
And not just letting yourself get absorbed by a good book on a regular basis, but reading with one part of your brain watching what the writer is doing and how you are reacting to it.
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But sometimes the music or what he was reading would all of a sudden cease to act on him or, worse, he would fall into despair or irritation, no longer able to see the bright horizon promised to him by music, by reading, by the art of imagination and the excitement of a sensitive heart.
But, upon reading, it is as interesting for what is missing as for what is within it.
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Now, that may not jibe with what you're hearing or what you're reading, but those are the facts.
But what gives the zealots their greatest hope is their reading of the opinion polls.
It would be hard to tell when reading what passes for market commentary these days, but all trades by definition balance.
Is it any coincidence that his report on early reading not only told teachers what to teach, but how to teach it?
But what does this mean for the future of e-reading?
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What Larson all but admits in his blog post is that reading the Times via the web site is an ordeal.
But after four-and-a-half years of reading and hearing what Palestinian political, religious, and intellectual leaders write and say, I have sadly concluded that the Arab-Israeli conflict has yet to undergo a fundamental transformation.
The whole report isn't available to the public, but why not use the time you would've spent reading it inspecting what's under the tree, and hoping you'll be responsible for upping those tablet stats in next year's report.
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In our hearts we know we need a change in our educational system that goes deeper than new reading programs or smaller class sizes, but we can't imagine what that should look like or how it should work, and frankly, we're scared.
"Part of what makes this compelling is not so much reading every tweet but just getting a real-time sense of how fast this is moving, " he said.
He explained how he has always had difficulty with reading and also has what he describes as "name blindness" but while doing this work he realised that he could use a different part of his brain.
The task of re-reading Muslim history, specially the earliest years of the post-Prophetic period, is not one of retrospectively reading our standards into what was narrated in the formative period, but finding clues in that narrative to explain the subsequent development of Muslim politics into our time.
If you're headed on vacation, you shouldn't have an issue loading up tons of titles onto the 2GB e-reader, but what if you decide you want to buy a book you saw someone reading on the plane?
Amazon has developed what is surely the finest flat-panel reading screen for reading, but it is still an electronic screen.
We've put in call to them, and we haven't had any comment back from them, but it sounds as though, from what you found, that Bob Dylan has been reading a man who by present day standards would be considered a pretty obscure American poet.
Reading, writing, and making laws is what gives them the most satisfaction, but religious orthodoxy scares them, and they want none of it.
But in 2006 Mr Wallace said he was again concerned by what he saw - this time at the Reading store as it was being refurbished.
Who can deny these books are the epitome of what boys own adventure stories should be, but as a commuter I see as many women reading them on the tube as men.
The whole of subprime mortgages--what do I know, I'm just sitting there reading the newspaper--but subprime mortgages went from virtually nothing to close to a trillion and a half dollars in the space of maybe two and a half years.
The BBC's Executive Producer James Simcock explains exactly what's been done differently at the source, but if you're not a "reading" kind of... reader, there's a trailer after the break.
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