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Title: Classic Study on Reading and Library Summer Reading
Review: Heyns conducted a study on sixth and seventh grades students in Atlanta Georgia, studying their activities over two school years and the intervening summer. As expected, large amounts of television watching had a negative effect on learning. What was suprising to many was that the single summer activity most strongly correlated to retention of learning over the summer was participation in a summer library reading program. Socioecomonic status and race had little impact on reading achievment over the summer especially compared to going to the public library on a regular basis.Given the impact on reading and education that public libraries have, it is odd that politicians are cutting library budgets at the very time that they are demanding an improvement in reading scores. Dr. Heyns book should be brought back in to print and widely discussed.
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