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Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Friday, April 10, 2026

April is the month to celebrate American libraries

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Whether it's supporting patrons with digital literacy classes, becoming a new telehealth hotspot, or hosting literacy tutoring nights, A...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Rural Missouri classrooms were the first to use a promising new way to teach students how to read

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Ashley Wood, a second-year kindergarten teacher in Phelps County, Missouri, is learning  to teach her students reading with the new coachin...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Quick hits: Appalachian brooms; soap science; school lunches on tour; summer train traveling; escaping the heat

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Cynthia Main makes handmade brooms, Appalachian style. (Sunhouse Craft photo via the Yonder) When a talented crafter with an entrepreneurial...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Early week quick hits: Addressing mental health issues; finding funny stories; using lasers to make birds leave

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Colorado Department of Agriculture photo via Successful Farming Farming and ranching are two livelihoods that are tough on the human body an...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Saturday is "Let Freedom Read Day," and organizers are promoting efforts to defend library books from censorship

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Public libraries should have materials for everyone in the community, but with the increase in book bans, it can feel like the freedom to fi...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

The Color Purple book remains one of the most frequently challenged books more than 40 years after its release

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In 2022, the ALA  documented over 1,200 attempts to ban or restrict library materials. (Thought Catalog photo, Unsplash) In 1982, Alice Wal...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Organized and influential, promoters and organizers of recent book bans seek influence over a lot more than books

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Florida Freedom to Read Project members. The project opposes restrictions on reading. (Photo by Todd Anderson, New York Times) Rancorous co...
Friday, September 09, 2016

Shenandoah Valley bookstore that opens six times a year draws customers from around the world

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Six times a year people from around the country, and some from around the world, flock to a rural town in the Shenandoah Valley to buy bo...
Wednesday, September 07, 2016

NEA survey has state-level data of creativity; North more likely than South to create or perform art

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How creative are people in your state? The National Endowment for the Arts conducted a pair of surveys , in partnership with the U.S. Cens...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Joyce Carol Thomas dies; told prizewinning stories of rural African Americans in Oklahoma

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Joyce Carol Thomas in 2004 ( San Francisco Chronicle photo)  "Joyce Carol Thomas, a National Book Award-winning author who drew o...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Politico ranks New Hampshire nation's strongest state, Louisiana weakest; 8 of 10 weakest in South

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New Hampshire is the strongest state, and 8 of the 10 weakest states are in the South, led by Louisiana as the nation's weakest state, ...
Friday, November 06, 2015

Rural Alabama county cuts library budget, so library eliminates rural bookmobile stops

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Some residents in one rural Alabama county are losing their bookmobile. The Calhoun County Commission approved a 5 percent budget cut to t...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Study: Using encouraging language, conversing with children impacts their IQ, educational outcomes

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Before children even attend school, their interactions with parents at home play a huge role in determining their grasp on vocabulary and co...
Friday, April 17, 2015

South Carolina promoting Little Free Libraries in rural areas that lack a public library

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Officials in South Carolina are trying to promote reading in rural areas that lack a public library by holding a contest to encourage commun...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

One of the nation's poorest school districts leads a discussion about innovation in education

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By Melissa Landon Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues BOONEVILLE, Ky. — School administrators and teachers from severa...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Public libraries are 'lifelines for rural communities'

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Whatever the changes in rural American communities, the public library remains one constant that has something for everybody. There are 8,9...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Too many snow days leave rural Minn. schools struggling to prepare for assessment tests

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Rural Minnesota schools have had so many snow days, and late starts due to snow, that some officials said they are worried students won...
Friday, January 04, 2013

Rural Americans are a bit less likely to read books, even more so when they involve work or school

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About 80 percent of people living in urban and suburban areas say they have read a book within the past year, while 71 percent of rural res...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Rural students' reading levels below suburban counterparts, slightly below urban score

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A comparison of reading scores of third graders in rural, suburban and urban areas show rural students are behind. The Carsey Insitute , an ...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Public libraries should be necessities in rural and urban communities

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Funding of U.S. libraries, including those in rural areas, should be considered a matter of national security, writes an Atlanta novelist. ...
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