The Journal of Research on Technology in Education publishes study showing that Merit reading comprehension software boosts test scores.

You'd figure someone who has been around as long as Alice Hoffman would know better than to complain about what she perceived as a bad review, but for some reason she blew her stack about Roberta Silman's in the Boston

The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nii Ayikwei Parkes' . See also the weblog (useful for the glossary !) and

Kipkoech Sigei Kenyan author Henry ole Kulet in The Standard -- an author who isn't convinved of the idea that authors should be salesmen of their books:He, however, disagrees with some who suggest writers should participate in the marketing of

The July/August issue of World Literature Today is now available; as usual, only very little is available online, but you can check out the to see what else you're missing.

In the Times of India Shreya Roy Chowdhury has a with Tamil author Sivasankari about her compendia, Knit India Through Literature (KITL), a project she describes as:Through the writers' eyes, i look at the region, its people, their culture and

About 75 middle-schoolers in Holt got after-school math help during the past school year, completing work online with live help from teachers.

Our libraries will be closed on the Canada Day statutory holiday - Wednesday, July 1. Happy Canada Day everyone!Summer hours will resume on July 2. For a complete listing of summer hours in all our libraries, please click the following

The Food and Drug Administration Transparency Task Force held the first of its two public meetings for public recommendations on how to increase transparency in decision making yesterday. At the meeting, Kristi Zonno, Director of Genetics and Health Policy at

The first successful artificial heart implant in the nation outside of a clinical trial was undertaken by surgeons at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey reported Abiomed Inc. (TopNews)

Sociology of Health & Illness (Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2009) is now available by subscription only.Articles Include:"Violence, dignity and HIV vulnerability: street sex work in Serbia" by Milena Simić and Tim Rhodes, 1-16."AIDS stigma in health services in the

Archives of Internal Medicine (Volume 169, Number 12, June 22, 2009) is now available by subscription only.Articles Include:"The Silent Dimension: Expressing Humanism in Each Medical Encounter" by Ami Schattner, 1095-1099."Cost-effectiveness Analysis of an Established, Effective Procedure" by Stephen Lyman, Robert

JAMA (Volume 301, Number 24, June 24, 2009) is now available by subscription only.Articles Include:"A Health Care Cooperative Extension Service: Transforming Primary Care and Community Health" by Kevin Grumbach and James W. Mold, 2589-2591."Economic Conditions and Obesity" by Garry Egger

Inside the Undergraduate Experience" is the result of the first longitudinal assessment of learning among a large group of American college students.

More than 150 scholars, community leaders and activists will participate in the 2007 Pacific Northwest Regional Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies next Thursday and Friday (March 22 and 23) on the Seattle campus of the

Students who entered college when they were 12 to 14 years old don't fit the stereotype of unhappy 'nerds.' University of Washington research paints a totally different and positive picture of these gifted students.

The DO-IT Scholars is now accepting applications from Washington State high school sophomores and juniors who have disabilities for a college-preparation and mentoring program.

The 2007 Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing, a nine-week academy teaching talented students the fundamentals of computer science, starts next week.

Ohio Plant Diagnostic Network is a joint venture of the university and the Ohio Department of Agriculture

OK, I just have to say it...Using an online degree program is not for everyone.(glad I got that off my chest )But it is true. There are some folks who are just not cut out for doing studies via an