We also talked about how more adults are reading comics, but everyone has terrible taste these days and is reading comics that seem geared towards a middle-school or early high-school readership.
Once word of the scandal at Penn State broke, including the arrest of two university officials on charges of perjury and of failing to report to the authorities what they knew of the accusations, my colleagues at the New York Times's Learning Network blog, Katherine Schulten and Holly Epstein Ojalvo, saw a teaching moment to engage the high school students in their readership.
NEW YORK, USA, 9 February 2010 – Although it's only six years old, the Youth Media Centre in Chişinău, Moldova already boasts some impressive numbers: The centre has trained over 1,500 young people; it currently puts out 75 school publications with a readership totalling 45,000; and it has produced more than 130 radio shows.
However, the acceptability of the F-word varies widely from publisher to publisher, and its inclusion may mean a book falls foul of gatekeepers or won't be stocked by school libraries, limiting its potential readership.
The Journal subsequently launched a series of initiatives including the Wall Street Journal Europe Future Leadership Institute (2007), a joint venture with business schools and universities across Europe, designed to enhance readership and cultivate future business leaders; WSJ.
The book is part of a growing public discourse on education policy aimed at a data-and-ideas-hungry readership of helicopter parents, engaged practitioners and school innovators.
Although Professor Zinn was writing for a general readership, his book was taught in high schools and colleges throughout the country, and numerous companion editions were published, including "Voices of a People's History," a volume for young people and a graphic novel.
This new compendium moves beyond school days to address matters newly relevant for the core readership: how to remarry, how to dress for a funeral and how to deal with the collateral damage caused by decades' worth of the party-hearty behavior described in the first book.
Belgian children learned about the Congo in school, and Wallez hoped to encourage colonialist and missionary zeal in his readership.
An informal survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center of its readership found evidence of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment in schools across the country since the start of the election.
Its readership has included hippies and New Agers, environmental activists and college and high school science students, as well as evangelical Christians increasingly concerned about the global environment.
