I hope he's wrong, as I just read these stats in "The Reading zone: How
to help kids become skilled, passionate, habitual, critical readers" by
Nancy Atwell - an excellent book, by the way. "Every measure that looks
at pleasure reading and its effects on student performance on
standardized tests of reading ability-and science and math-tells us that
the major predictor of academic success is the amount of time a student
spends reading. In fact, the top 5 percent of U.S. students read up to
144 times more than the kids in the bottom 5 percent (107).
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of librarychickie
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:09 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: FYI Steve Jobs NYT 1/15 /08
Forgive me if this was posted:
When discussing new technologies he made this reference to Amazons
Kindle book reader.
"Today he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including
the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely
because Americans have stopped reading.
"It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that
people don't read anymore," he said. "Forty percent of the people in the
U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at
the top because people don't read anymore."
"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus - Greek-born, Roman
slave/philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD)
Kristina Politis Fallon, LMS
Robert Morris School
South Bound Brook NJ
yasumani@verizon.net
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