This option to focus on reading could be a real help for kids who are easily distracted.
They should be able to know they can go to school and focus on reading and math and recess.
But while a focus on reading tends to highlight the relative under-performance of boys, they do not lag behind in every respect.
In spite of that focus on reading, the company's opted for what it's deemed the "highest resolution on a 7-inch tablet, " and certainly the 1, 440 x 900, 243ppi display looks quite nice when you're watching one of those hi-res movies from the newly announced Nook Video.
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But critics say it labels too many schools failures, prompts teachers to focus on math and reading at the expense of other subjects, and sets too-stringent mandates to fix low-performing schools.
You know they need nutritious food in their stomachs before they can focus their brains on math and reading and science.
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While we should maintain the law's strong focus on getting kids to proficiency in reading and math, grade-level math and reading skills are just the beginning of what children will need to succeed in 21st-century workplaces.
More often than not companies are interested in such minutia as that habit you have of scanning the headlines on the metro in the morning via your smartphone then reading in depth the stories you really want to focus on at the office on your desktop.
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Reformers focus only on testable subjects, primarily math and reading, because accountability has become the golden goose of education reform.
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After a decade of browsing, blogging, linking, clicking and Tweeting, I find it nearly impossible to focus on a book even when I try to recreate a reading environment that mirrors a more technologically simple time.
The ability to focus on near objects decreases, which explains why many people need reading glasses as they get older.
By the age of 40 or 50 most people are finding it difficult to focus on printed material in front of them, leaving them requiring reading glasses.
Mr Reading believes the failure on public sector pay speaks to a general failure to focus on the right things in designing the deficit strategy.
If you've spent any time reading the papers in Iowa and some other Midwestern states, you may have seen a focus on this wind tax credit, which is something that has been debated in Congress.
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