Here's hoping he gets to make it, because with "No Straight Lines" he has produced a useful, combative and frequently moving chronicle of a culture in perpetual transition; to read it is to watch as an insular demimonde transforms itself, in painful fits and joyful starts, and steps out into a wider monde.
Whereas the pirate revels in the smooth transition from link to content, the Kindle user revels in the smooth transition from "Buy This" to reading.
And tutoring during the K-3 years helps ensure children can make the pivotal transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn".
Harvard educational psychologist Jeanne Chall famously called this phenomenon the "fourth grade reading slump," where children cannot make the transition from learning to read to "reading to learn," which hinders their learning in all other subjects.
When offered in the context of an aligned, seamless continuum of early learning, expanding access to full-day kindergarten becomes a critical strategy for closing achievement gaps by third grade, the stage at which success in school depends upon a child's ability to transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn".
"The core problem of literacy in middle school is you're transitioning from learning to read, to reading to learn," said Josh Thomases, deputy chief academic officer for the Education Department.
The transition to digital reading brought with it a new kind of publishing that was distinctly more experimental, energetic and (nakedly) commercial than that which preceded it.
Particularly during political transition, companies have to read the situation and not remain stuck in obduracy.
He assigns his transition team books to read.
Moving to D.C. this year, I tackled the transition by reading articles pertaining to the history of the District, and stumbled upon Edward P. Jones wonderful and raw collection of short stories that focuses on the lives of African-American men and women who worked, grew up, struggled and were in various senses of the word lost along the streets of the District which I roamed and ran daily.
The Guardian's editorial on the transition to digital-only reads: "... the Indy may be leading where others might follow.
