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A new study says that reading the Weekly Reader can increase students' knowledge of current events--particularly in the early elementary years.
Carolyn Huie Hofstetter and her colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, and San Diego State University collected data on 2,332 children between the ages 8 and 12 in four cities: Boston, Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco.
Some of the students regularly read the Weekly Reader in their classrooms. Others read another current-events periodical geared to classroom use. Some read both, and others...
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Correction:
The third item in this article gives the wrong figure for the estimated time that it will take to eliminate the achievement gap between black and white students. The correct figure, according to the study, is 140 years.
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