Play, The Library, and Every Child Ready to Read 2

JCAHO survey: being ready every day.

Mobile Technologies for Every Library

Every Child Reading

This "action paper"was discussed at the Learning First Alliance S u m m i t on Reading and Mathematics held in Washington, D.C, January 26 28, 1998. Tbe paper is the collective work o f the Learning First Alliance Board o f Directors. It has been inf o r m e d by m a n y distinguished experts in reading. We are pleased to acknowledge the assistance o f Robert Slavin, Johns Hopkins University, a...

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Brain changes after learning to read and play music.

Musically naive participants were scanned before and after a period of 15 weeks during which they were taught to read music and play the keyboard. When participants played melodies from musical notation after training, activation was seen in a cluster of voxels within the bilateral superior parietal cortex. A subset of these voxels were activated in a second experiment in which musical notation...