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August 7, 2007 8:00 AM
A Time To Reclaim: Summer Reading

For some of us, particularly students and teachers, summer is a time to reclaim what we have not had during the year, and that can be a number of things. For many, it might simply mean picking up a book we have been longing to read but simply have not had the available time to do so. The traditions of saving those books for "summer reading" has translated into an industry of sorts. Barns and Noble or Borders has its select shelf of "reads" for summer.

Schools have decided to hop on the bandwagon and appropriate the "summer read" by requiring it. (This is a reclamation project of sorts as well.) Schools, in their particular fashion, have decided to enhance the productivity of students who over the years (it is the perception) may be reading less and less; the dilemma--how to get kids to read more? The reclamation and answer: have them read in the summer and require them to do so. It is a terrific idea.

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