Customers can now get this award-winning device, along with NOOK's best-in-class digital reading experience at an unbeatable price.

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On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.

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Police say the boy told the leaders he had forwarded the message without reading it to others in the middle-class compound for employees of the local gas company where he lived.

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The graduating class of 2012 posted an average score of 496 in reading, a one-point drop from 2011 and a 34-point decline since 1972, the first year the College Board began tracking the scores of "college-bound" seniors.

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Can you imagine students not reading the Constitution in a U.S. government class?

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The use of familiar, real-life materials helps students to feel more comfortable in class, and the structured teaching of literacy skills gradually improves their reading and writing skills.

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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.

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Joe and Frank Venezia used to sit in class like a couple of dummies -- they never kept up on the reading.

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That's a powerful incentive to settle, even when the claims are unlikely to stand up in court, as with Myers' attempt to establish a class of book readers who suffered the same loss from reading a book they later found out wasn't entirely true.

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