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Look for these titles in bookstores this coming weekend watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. Saturday, january 24th is being called National Readathon day. What is National Readathon date . All across america we invite readers to spend the afternoon . All across america we invite readers to spend the afternoon meeting any book they like the weather across the country, any book you want. Why are you promoting this . Guest essentially our hope is to find different ways in coming years to foster a culture of reading in america and remind people what they experience is like to sit and dedicate a nice long swath of time to read in. We here feedback all the times that people read books less now because they feel they dont have time or do it in little snippets here and there but theres a real pleasure that comes from getting lost in the world of a book, different than if you rejecting the phone every few minutes or on the go, and want people to remember what the experience was
CharlottesvilleVirginiaUnited-statesNew-yorkArizonaGeorgiaTennesseeSan-franciscoCaliforniaAmericaJohn-quincy-adamsCharles-howellCant learn about whether programs are working or not. The problem is the action that takes place as a result of learning, the evolution. That is where any organization resists getting rid of things that dont work. It will do anything to avoid that. It was different in the private sector. I have been in the private sector and if you are not confronted with the discipline of profit and loss in a big way, you are not inclined to undertake evolutionary change yourself. So i think you can get useful evaluation internally and from contractors but in the end you wont get the evolution. A very brief comment. Very good example which i discuss in the book is head start where outside evaluators and the department of health and Human Services has done very costly and extensive assessments for the program over the course of many decades and they have pretty uniformly, there is in defense but uniformly show the effects of head start, positive effects of head start erode by the third grade and even o
United-statesNew-yorkCaliforniaAlabamaSan-franciscoAmericaAmericanPeter-schuckPaul-coatesTerry-williamsStephen-kingTroy-johnsonIm hoping theyll take credit theyll take my check. They disenchantment, could we please think this fabulous panel in thank you for moderating it. And the ending question we can talk about during spring break. [inaudible conversations] the National Black Writers Panel continues now with black writing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, i am dr. Linda michele bair and from your college, the Sister College to this fabulous and the two shin. I am just honored to be here to introduce the final panel for today, the state of publishing. In doing so, this is a 2014 odyssey. This is a clean start. You will have lost all of what i didnt be previously. But i do have really just such a wonderful opportunity to introduce a friend of mine from a person i can do for a friend who is in the world of publishing. I give you a little bit of information and shes going to be the moderator on this auspicious occasion. Linda atkins director of publicity at Grand Central
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