[LM_NET] Hit: New (?) reading research

[Meg Torrens <megtorrens@YAHOO.COM>]

Thanks so much all of you... I'm so glad that Kimberly Passalugo found the link to 
the story I was searching for..
   
  http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1633286&page=1&WNT=true
   
  As many of you suggested,  it was referring to the book Freakonomics which was 
written by an economists who in a quantitative kind of guy.  In other words he 
looks at numbers and looks for correlations, not causations.  He's the guy who not 
too long ago made the connection that legalizing abortion is the reason the crime 
rate has gone down.
   
  I appreciate the suggestions to read Trelease, Krashen, and Allington.  All of 
whom I hope we are all familar. I am anxious to chat with my principal tomorrow, as 
he had the opportunity to hear Richard Allington today at his district principal 
meeting. 
   
  Thanks again everyone!! LM net Rocks!!


Meg Torrens
Library Information Specialist
Palmetto Bays Elementary
Myrtle Beach, SC

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