The Common Core State Standards are changing reading instruction in many schools.
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tal news staff by 2/3's was a very very bad move. This is the premier issue of our era. If we ...don't get this right, nothing else matters. You have chosen to be beholden to your purse strings rather than your journalist ic integrity. When you've lost that, what is the point of NPR? See More 10/29/2014 - Andrea PerkinsVery, very disappoint
ed to hear about the significan t cuts (perhaps "gutting" might be the right word?) to your environm...ental reporting team. NPR has always been a trusted source for comprehens ive coverage of issues that aren't generally covered by the cable news channels. In this current climate (literal and figurative ), your coverage is more important than ever. Please re-think your position and bring back your environmen tal team -- or risk losing listeners and their financial support as well. See More 10/28/2014
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Write ReviewOverall, the agency has loaned $34.2 billion to a variety of businesses, under a program designed to speed up development of clean-energy technology. Companies have defaulted on $780 million of that — a loss rate of 2.28 percent. The agency also has collected $810 million in interest payments, putting the program $30 million in the black.
Eileen Pace of Texas Public Radio will be taking your questions on Reddit on the recent advancements in the prosthetics industry today at 12 p.m. EST. (http://redd.it/2m6w52)
When Alabama's Republican-controlled Legislature drew new state legislative district lines after the 2010 Census, African-Americans accused the Republicans of packing the black vote into a smaller number of districts. But was that motivated by race (illegal) or by partisan interests (completely legal)?
In Richard Ford's "Let Me Be Frank With You," Frank is dealing with his aging body, the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, a dying friend, and his ex-wife -- who has Parkinson's and has moved to a nearby assisted living facility.
But it's funny. Really.
Hear the Pulitzer Prize-winning author talk about the book, and life, on Fresh Air.
But it's funny. Really.
Hear the Pulitzer Prize-winning author talk about the book, and life, on Fresh Air.
NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says he was excited when American Idol first announced Randy Jackson would be a judge: " 'Here's a player; a musician who gets it,' I thought. 'This is a guy who will bring a musician's sensibility to this glitzy TV show.' Unfortunately, the opposite happened."
If you're gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender, odds are that you've had a doctor flinch or flounder through an appointment. The next generation of physicians needs to do better, the Association of American Medical Colleges announced Tuesday. http://n.pr/1qEqhir
"She's a knife-wielding rock star in her own right"
We could all use an adept coxswain at certain times in life — to help us know where we are going and to get us there straightaway.
All told, an estimated 850,000 Bolivian children work. They sell food and clothes at outdoor markets. They mine silver and harvest sugar cane.
Until about 600 million years ago, seeing colors didn't matter so much to Earth's inhabitants — nobody had eyes. Then, something really big happened.
“In my opinion, it’s a good old-boy network. A lot of things have been covered up. A lot of things have been pushed aside,” Bel-Ridge Board of Trustees member Rachel White.
It's fall auction season in New York, and two Andy Warhol silkscreens are on the block at Christie's. One is of Elvis Presley — it's called Triple Elvis; the other is Four Marlons — as in Marlon Brando. In the late 1970s, a German casino bought both works for $185,000. This time around, they are expected to fetch more than $100 million. Warhol's estate won't see any of that money.
Abigail, 9, is practicing her multiplication tables. She has long pigtails and big dreams. She says some of the worst things about living in the car were the cold and doing her schoolwork.
"My writing was very sloppy," she says. "Because I had to do it ... on the seat of the car, and you know it was like, mushy and stuff. So yeah it was kind of hard to do my homework." http://n.pr/1Er7PQF
"My writing was very sloppy," she says. "Because I had to do it ... on the seat of the car, and you know it was like, mushy and stuff. So yeah it was kind of hard to do my homework." http://n.pr/1Er7PQF
"It would be like going into a restaurant and ordering a meal and then getting a bill from the waiter and from the restaurant separately, and the cook separately and the busboy separately. And some of them will negotiate with you on the price, and some of them will accept coupons, and the others don't."
Instead of using a text as a springboard into kids' personal experiences, this Common Core shift demands that students stick to the material, reading it carefully and citing evidence for all that they say or write.
Prosthetic limbs can get hot. Really hot. “You start to sweat a lot, and then the sweat can't go anywhere,” says Iraq War veteran Gary Walters. Walters figured he wasn’t the only person dealing with this issue, so he designed a cooling fan.
"We never start: 'This would be a cool situation for a weed delivery.' We start from complex emotions that we are going through and we try to capture the authenticity of how it feels to feel that way.
"And then we apply some weed to it."
— Ben Sinclair, co-creator of the Web series "High Maintenance"
"And then we apply some weed to it."
— Ben Sinclair, co-creator of the Web series "High Maintenance"
Henry Lee Jackson, known as Big Bank Hank from the pioneering rap group the Sugarhill Gang, died Tuesday. In remembrance, we revisit the story behind the group's iconic song, "Rapper's Delight."
(Correction: Henry Lee Jackson was 58 when he died Tuesday, not 57, as we posted in the headline. Unfortunately, we cannot change the headline here, but it is fixed on the story page.)
(Correction: Henry Lee Jackson was 58 when he died Tuesday, not 57, as we posted in the headline. Unfortunately, we cannot change the headline here, but it is fixed on the story page.)
Ramatu Usman says she was separated from her 6-year-old son Yahaya Buba following an attack by Boko Haram last week. He is still missing. NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton spoke to Usman and other displaced Nigerians for this story: http://n.pr/1zfPxAX
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