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Literacy
ReadWriteWeb:
At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids."Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the (Read More)
The Guardian:
Many schools find that National Challenge status has actually made it harder to improveIn the classrooms of Canterbury high school, students are receiving what Ofsted last year described as an "outstanding" education. Outside (Read More)
Huffington Post:
[R]eps from a Seattle-based nonprofit attended the [National Book Awards] event to pick up one of five "Innovations in Reading" prizes for their online book community readergirlz.
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Information Literacy Weblog:
The ACRL Instruction Section Awards Committee is inviting nominations for the 2010 Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award. Nominations must be submitted by December 4, 2009, deadline. The Rockman Award rec (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians,
Information Literacy Network
Pune-Cities-The Times of India:
Women and adult literacy will be one of the major thrust areas of the impending mid-term appraisal of the 11th Five Year Plan, said Narendra Jadhav. (Read More)
Topic:
Women
Pune-Cities-The Times of India:
More than 6,700 adult education centres will be established in village panchayats with less than 50% female literacy, across nine districts of Marathwada and Vidarbha regions. (Read More)
Topic:
Education
Information Literacy Weblog:
The latest issue of Reference Services Review volume 37 issue 4 includes the following article:- Anna Marie Johnson, Claudene Sproles, Latisha Reynolds "Library instruction and information literacy, 2008" pp. 463-553 (This is (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians,
Information Literacy Network
Librarian:
LAURA BUSHTeacher, Librarian, Champion of Literacy and Former First Lady of the United States November 23, 2009 – Monday, 8pm.The Pittsburgh Speakers Series is a series of seven different lectures, on seven evenings, at Heinz (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians
guardian.co.uk Politics:
There is a lot of sense in Tory thinking but they must do more to close the gap between rich and poorAlthough the next election sometimes seems like a choice between root canal work and an operation for haemorrhoids, I do at (Read More)
The Guardian:
New skills could be included in literacy lessonsPrimary school children should be taught to understand the "language" of advertisers and spin doctors to stop them becoming too susceptible to sophisticated campaigns, it has be (Read More)
Submitted by catepol
from Google Reader:
Del racconto di Sergio, in missione al Personal Democracy Forum, mi ha colpito soprattutto un passaggio. Quello in cui, raccontando la relazionedi Anthony Hamelle di Linkfluence, evidenzia come la blogosfera italiana «appaia (Read More)
The Guardian:
The Oprah Winfrey Show is set to end. From tears on the sofa to the world's biggest book club, has it been a TV classic?The queen of the talk shows will finally hang up her microphone after 25 years of The Oprah Winfrey Show. (Read More)
District Dispatch:
Contact: Jenni TerryPress Officer, ALA Washington OfficeFor Immediate ReleaseWashington, D.C. – Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Washington Office, today filed testimony for the (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians
ResourceShelf:
From the Release:Emily Sheketoff, executive director of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Washington Office, today filed testimony for the official record of the House Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians,
Library Technology
guardian.co.uk Society:
Our new primary school curriculum trusts teachers' professional judgment, as we move towards a consensus on educationOver the past six months of being schools minister, I've had the pleasure of getting back into schools, meet (Read More)
Information Literacy Weblog:
On October 26-27 we were happy to have a visit from Sophie Bury, from York University in Canada. Whilst she was here she gave a talk based on her research, for our Centre for Information Literacy Research: An Investigation of (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians,
Information Literacy Network
guardian.co.uk Society:
Regrets hung in the air, but don't dismiss the Queen's speech as a packet of fag-end gestures. Many of these bills could passNot dead yet. Alive, alive-O was Labour's message heralded by trumpets. Though delivered in deathly (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Saul Griffith is an inventor and entrepreneur. He did his PhD at MIT in programmable matter, exploring the relationship between bits and atoms, or information and materials. Since leaving MIT, he has co-founded a number of te (Read More)
The Guardian:
The story of the pivotal civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama is to be made into a film, with Lee Daniels poised to directIt is the Alabama town forever associated with the civil rights struggle after state troopers clubbed (Read More)
GSLIS Joblist:
McIntyre LibraryThe McIntyre Library at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has a probationary tenure track faculty vacancy available at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor or Professor to serve as Refer (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians
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