(CNET) Audiobooks are a great way to pass the time on long drives. Audiobook prices, on the other hand, are a great way to drain your wallet. Want to listen to "The Martian" author Andy Weir's new book "Artemis"? It'll…
(WBUR) Books in your ears. The history of audiobooks from wax cylinders to the digital age. We’ll trace the untold story of the talking book. The digital age has done a number on the music, movie and publishing industries. But…
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Given that research has shown that audiobooks impact literacy for youth in a number of ways, and since school librarians typically serve as gatekeepers of audiobook collections in school libraries, this study examined the attitudes of school librarians in Texas…
(Education Week) Four years ago, after I accepted an offer to teach language arts to 8th graders, my teaching partner asked me to read up on a few novels that we would be reading aloud to our students throughout the…
(Associated Press) When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch Providence's high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city's youngest children, he said he hoped the pilot could take root in…
(The Washington Post) Coverage in The Washington Post of Dana Suskin's book, Thirty Million Words, which references the famous word gap study from Hart and Risley, 1995. Parent talk in the first three years of life is the power propelling…