The effects of music instruction on emergent literacy capacities among preschool children: a literature review.
Abstract This article presents a literature review of pertinent research that has dealt with the relationships between music education and emergent literacy in preschoolers during the past 20 years. In total, 13 correlational and quasi-experimental studies were summarized and compared. These interdisciplinary studies have demonstrated that music...

`Ready to learn' gets harder.
Byline: Clive McFarlane COLUMN: CLIVE MCFARLANE In politics, rhetoric and reality seldom achieve symmetry, especially when it comes to matters of public education. In his fiscal 2009 budget, Gov. Deval L. Patrick promised each Massachusetts child access to a world-class education. ...

Video: Cheerios(R) Spoonfuls of Stories(R) is Helping Parents Nurture Their Children's Love of Reading - By Putting Five Million Books Inside Cereal Boxes Again This Fall.
Cheerios is specially printing THREE MILLION of the books in English and Spanish so more families can enjoy them MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Encouraging kids to read has led the people at Cheerios to think outside of the box - by putting millions of books INSIDE...

Country Inn & Suites by Carlson Opens in Roselle, Ill.
ROSELLE, Ill., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The new 101-room Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Roselle has opened its doors for business at 1490 W. Lake Street in Roselle, Ill. "We're very excited to bring the Country Inns & Suites By Carlson concept to this region," said...

Evaluation of the effectiveness of an early literacy program for students with significant developmental disabilities.
For the last 2 decades, educators have placed strong emphasis on teaching students to read using scientifically based interventions, implemented through the federal government's Reading First initiative and defined in research synthesis reports (Adams, 1990; National Institute for Literacy, 2001). These reports provide converging evidence that learning to read...

Learning alternatives and strategies for students who are struggling.
When I was little, my grandmother came to visit. She had been a teacher, so my mom wanted me to read to her. Grandma was sure that she could fix my problem. She would smile and teach me a word, but five minutes later--BAM!--the word was gone from my...

From the president.
The call for science education reform has gone out for decades. Advisory committees, blue-ribbon panels, congressional reports, and research agencies have offered the what and the how. We have state and national standards, exemplary practices, schools that work, and the value of science education for the individual and community...

Reconsidering information literacy.
Abstract The delineated information explosion inevitably prompted moves---via the information literacy concept---to help survive the ensuing problematic information deluge through effective retrieval, evaluation, and efficient use. However, there are insistent calls for conceptual reconsideration because of the emerged negative connotation of "literacy" in this teaching-learning concept. ...

World Literacy Day: Literacy and Sustainable Development.
LITERACY as defined in the National Literacy Act is an individual's ability to read, write, and speak, compute and solve problems on levels of proficiency to function on the job and in society to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential. As the world changes and...

Govt forms body to boost literacy drives.
PATNA: The state government has constituted a sub-committee to prepare an action plan for giving impetus to informal education and literacy programmes. Announcing this here on Saturday, CM Nitish Kumar hoped that the Centre will extend full cooperation in this regard. He was speaking at the 12th...