Re "Reading, Writing, Retailing" (Op-Ed, June 27): When comparing teachers' salaries to other workers', one should take into account teachers' shorter work schedules.
Re "Reading, Writing and Body Waxing: A Back-to-School List for the Image-Conscious Teenager" (news article, Sept. 2): What I missed in my deprived childhood!
Re "Reading the Writing on the Envelope" (Digital Domain, Oct. 2), which described the quandary facing the United States Postal Service: A primary problem for the postal service is that its valuable, first-class mail deliveries are suffering while bulk, lower classes continue to stress the system.
Re "Reading Scores Drop Sharply in 8th Grade Testing" (news article, July 11): Testing is not an exact science, which is why we agreed with our test contractor not to use one of the recent results in the same manner as others.
She also points out that children, like all other readers, bring something of themselves to the books they read and that may change during re-readings in ways that may be illuminating.
Critical reading can be regarded as an attempt of "re-reading" which requires handling many concepts affecting our life directly or indirectly with a wider perspective.
Initial theme construction guided two further re-readings of all responses, with reflection and revision following each reading until the final thematic coding scheme suitably reflected participants' key perceptions, with great care taken to avoid introducing researcher bias (Marshall & Rossman, 1999).
I was reading a lot of Trollope, and also some Dickens, and also re-reading "Madame Bovary".
The brutal ending continues to shock after several re-readings.
