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22 Aug 2007 09:15 AM

GENDER EQUITY IN 'READ ALOUD' STORIES FOR CHILDREN

Enter your post here���  ��� This is���  an experiment, comments invited ���  ���  Preface ���  \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Gender bias exists in the content, language and illustrations of a large number of children\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s books.

20 Aug 2007 10:42 AM

The Aftermath of School Shootings

Enter your post here I am a layman and private citizen on general e-distribution of \\\'The Weekly SPARK\\\', an e-newsletter of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC). Soon after the (April 16, 2007) Virginia Tech tragedy the SPRC disseminated their April 19, 2007 issue of \\\'SPARK\\\'.

19 Aug 2007 01:28 PM

An Unresponsive Grandpa

Enter your post hereAn Unresponsive Grandpa ���  The mother of a pre-teen age girl may have read the preceding vignette. Not long after I had posted my reply to the aged grandpa I received an email from a woman in which she told of her daughter\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s repeated but futile attempts to communicate with her grandfather.

18 Aug 2007 02:58 PM

A Grandpa Too Far

Enter your post here���  \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Outreach\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' and communications between grandparents and grandchildren range from frequent to not-at-all. Some years ago I responded to an email from an \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'old-old\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' grandfather (as I am now) who told of his futile attempts to contact one or several of his too-faraway grandchildren.

18 Aug 2007 08:54 AM

Basil Seeds? In Space? Orbiting Planet Earth? No, I'm not kidding.

I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'m on distribution of the \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'NASA Science News\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' and the August 16, 2007 issue opens with (quote): ����¯�¿�½������  ...

15 Aug 2007 12:50 PM

How My 'Grandpa' Storytelling Began

Enter your post here ���  (Time: about 25 years ago)���  I reside in one city, my grandchildren in another about a thousand miles distant. During one of my rare visits, and with her mother\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s permission and help, we bundled up my two-year old granddaughter and tucked her into her stroller.

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