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Students from a British school were joined for part of their annual reading sleepover by students from two schools in Louisiana.

By KANDACE MCCOY kandace.mccoy@register-news.com WALTONVILLE - At the beginning of the school year, Waltonville eighth-grader Shelby Patterson set a goal: to earn 1,000 Accelerated Reader points for the year.

Health insurance: While the firm was a previous health insurance agent for Renaissance Learning, Wisconsin Rapids-based Lester, Smart, Fehrman, Treml, and Arendt insurance company is no longer providing health ...

Faced with paying more than $3.80 a gallon for gas, Linda Garski decided alternative modes of transportation were needed.

“We covered our tracks really well. There's no way we'll get busted!”

Much has been written about the reading gap between boys and girls, with multiple theories offered for why girls read more than boys. via The Ashland Daily Tidings

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At least one local agent would like to get a shot at being the Wisconsin Rapids School District health insurance consulting agent if a change in carriers is made. via Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

“Here at the high school, kids are so busy with sports, clubs and work that I think they have less leisure time for reading.”

While the number of books read annually by elementary students gradually decreases as a child ages, there is a substantial drop- off of readers in middle and high school levels, according to a new study from ... via Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

“What's missing from the list are all the wonderful nonfiction, informational, humorous and novelty books as well as graphic novels that kids read and enjoy both inside and outside the classroom”

The Renaissance Learning report "What Kids Are Reading" calculated the books most read by more than 3 million schoolchildren last year. via Journal Gazette

A company called Renaissance Learning surveyed 3 million children to find out what they are reading, the Post reports. via Books are my only friends

“I find it reassuring ... that students are still reading the classics I read as a child”

Children have welcomed the Harry Potter books in recent years like free ice cream in the cafeteria, but the nation's largest survey ever of youthful reading shows that the works of Dr. via The Dallas Morning News

“I find it reassuring ... that students are still reading the classics I read as a child”

The largest survey ever of youthful reading in the United States reveals today that none of J.K. Rowling's phenomenally popular Harry Potter books has been able to dislodge the works of longtime favorites Dr. via Hartford Courant