Summer reading at home drives lifelong literacy
The piece argues summer is ideal for fostering reading through home support and family routines. It notes PTA and club efforts, the role of parents taking children to libraries, and daily quiet periods for reading. It warns against procrastination and suggests deadlines and engaging reading lists to prevent dropouts.
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PTA
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Training slum youth as teachers in New York City
In New York City 60 boys from slum areas are being trained at New York University to teach in slums. The program is funded by a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity.
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New York City
New York
June 23 Historical Highlights and Birthdays
On this day in 1965 the calendar notes events from 1894 to 1964 including the Duke of Windsor born in 1894, William Penn treaty in 1683, Texas annexation in 1845, Taft Hartley Act passage in 1947, and General Taylor named ambassador to South Viet Nam in 1964. A thought from General Marshall emphasizes world peace as the ultimate revolution.
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Duke of Windsor
Edward the VIII of
England
William Penn
Delaware River
Congress of Texas
United States
House
Truman
Maxwell Taylor
South Viet Nam
Henry Cabot Lodge
George Marshall
Ohio Senate panel backs substitute school bus bill
The Senate Highway Committee in Columbus unanimously recommended passage of a Rhodes administration substitute school bus bill. It keeps transportation under the state board of education and creates a new coordinator of school transportation to be named by local county groups. An Oakley Collins amendment clarifies provisions and Garrigan's amendment limits the coordinator's authority to route and schedule approvals by the state superintendent with board consent.
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Columbus
Ohio
UPI
Senate Highway Committee
Rhodes
State Board of Education
Oakley C. Collins
Arronton
Ed Garrigan
Akron
Garrigan
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Boards of Education
Leavitt dies after stroke. Custer, a war correspondent, dead
Moses A. Leavitt of New York who won millions in compensation from Germany for tea victims died Monday after a May 31 stroke. He was 71. Joe James Custer, former United Press war correspondent, died Sunday from an apparent heart attack. The report notes trials and appeals for Ralph Staine in the 1959 Pottsville burglary case and mentions related petitions. Funeral services held for Charles Langdon Adams, 78, who died of a heart ailment at a New Rochelle hospital. North Dakota durum wheat production cited.
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Geneva
Switzerland
UPI
Moses A. Leavitt
New York
Honolulu
Joe James Custer
United Press
Pelham Manor
N.Y
Charles Langdon Adams
New Rochelle
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