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Beth Fertig reports for Voice of America about a trend among teachers to use comic books to encourage students to read, draw, and write.

The Women’s National Book Association honored Nancy Pearl with their 2004 WNBA award on Friday, according to this USA Today profile of her and her interest in reading. “It was painful to live in our house, and consequently I spent most of my childhood and early adolescence at the public library … It’s not too [...]

Bill Ives reports Wellesy College offers free blogs to its alumnae.

Seeing Steven’s thoughts about a personal wiki made me smile. I have a whiteboard in my office that sat idle for the first few months of my occupation. When I began indexing photos and was working on a hierarchy, I would sometimes put a term on the board, then draw relationships between it and other [...]