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Reading Specialist Innovations [09/05/74] A Master's thesis titled -- "The Reading Process Affect", according to Fresno State Professor, Maurice Hunt, Ph.D., is a "brilliant work, setting out a comprehensive unified field theory of reading by means of computer modeling, linguistics, motivation, and situational analyses."... More!

Ethics Database Update [01/19/02] Dr. Howard Hobbs' Professional Ethics Database.   This site also has links to current job listings, Study Opportunities
in Practical and Professional Ethics, and Call for Papers ...More!

Late News Stories [01/16/02] Breaking education & teaching news compiled by California Star Staff researchers and ...More!
Current Faculty Salaries [03/01/97]   Data was derived from reports covering 124,519 faculty members at 366 public four-year colleges and universities and 63,520 faculty members at...More!

Teach Your Child To Read [03/01/97] Reprint from Mother Wire Magazine - Mother can easily teach her baby to read. It's easier than you think. Remember your teaching must ...More!

Upated Student Data Handbook for Elementary, Secondary, and Early Childhood Education [12/31/01] The Handbook defines data elements and definitions onpersonal information, enrollment, school participation and out of school experience, assessment and...More!

New State Ad Package Promotes Reading [12/28/01] The Office of the Secretary for Education today unveiled READ California's new advertising campaign designed to encourage children to read. It includes English and Spanish language television commercials, billboards and...More!

CALL FOR PAPERS [12/22/01] The Valley Press Media Network is requesting submissions for a special research issue on "Online Journalism".
     Significant changes are taking place in the most prestigious newspapers and magazines around the world as well as in smaller community papers and magazines as they embrace various forms of online publishing.
     Whether this is manifested in a sophisticated home page, a replication of the print product or a completely unique online publication, there are numerous organizational, professional, philosophical and pragmatic issues associated with the electronic revolution.
     As many companies shift from daily or weekly publication schedules to a broadcast model of almost immediate news delivery, struggle with the cost of new media organizations coupled with low advertising rates, and endeavor to develop easy-to-use computer interfaces and easy-to-find web sites, the challenges and opportunities are many and the available research to guide either practical inquiries or to assess the societal and cultural implications is extremely limited.
    The editors of this special issue are reequesting submissions of scholarly research on concepts such as changes in the delivery and construction of stories, the potential shift in journalists' identity, the reader's interaction with the publication, organizational changes in media corporations or in start-up companies (both structural and personnel changes), company-specific approaches to capture reader interest, international differences in online strategies, the business models for online publishing, the impact of large commercial ventures on smaller web sites and lower budget publications, and the role of new technology development in shaping online publications.
     These areas are, of course, offered as examples of studies that would be appropriate and are not intended to be a definitive list of potential research issues. The consumers of digital news and opinion should be informed by a variety of scholarly approaches to instant digital communication so that the research database in this field of writing and publishinbg can contribute to theoretical, pragmatic and practical form of electronic communicatioins media.
     Papers from critical, post-structural and post-modern perspectives are welcom. All materials must be in-hand by Valley Press Media Network, no later than March 1, 2002.
     Submissions should be in ascii, HTML, or Microsoft Word format. Submissions should be sent via e-mail to the VPMN... School for Communication.
On September 11, when the world changed, I tried to do the simplest things.[12/06/01] I counted family members and friends as a parent counts a newborn's fingers and toes...More!

Major shift has taken place while universities slept [12/05/01] It's the emergence of a powerful asynchronous learning method for undergraduates that is causing the traditional world wide university to melt down...More!

Digital Gift To The Nation [12/02/01] We recommend the creation of the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DO IT), a nonprofit, NGO to meet the urgent need to transform learning in the 21st century...More!

Reading Journal Issues [12/01/01] When the bad stuff in the news is really, really bad, teacher's voices, an electronic classroom web watch...More!

Blaming The Messenger [11/28/01] Critics of the SAT have chosen the wrong target. Instead of attacking a fair and valid achievement test, they should level their ire at our dismal public schools....More!

Two Cheers for an End to the SAT [11/26/01]  One imagines the folks at the College Board blushing deeply when, a few years back, they announced that the "A"in SAT...More!

Walden Distance-ed Pioneer Ready for Global Challenge [11/23/01] On a sweltering mid-summer morning, two dozen doctoral students, huddled in clusters of five or...More!
UC regents Wednesday endorsed a major shift. [11/16/01] The Trustee's admissions policy now allows personal achievements, not just grades and test scores, to be ...More!
Online Course Examines Great Cities Throughout History [11/15/01 ] Cities are "crucibles" in which art, literature, commerce, and technology are developed and fused. In a two-part online course on the history of ...More!
Professor Grace Ransom Reading Specialist Dies [04/30/97] Grayce A. Ransom, an authority on ways to develop children's proficiency in reading, died April 10 at ...More!

Fresno State Education prof. Maurice Hunt praised.[09/05/00] He tauted Howard Hobbs' Masters thesis as brilliant. It still attracts widespread interest in a humanistic teaching model of ...More!
College Libraries Empty? [11/15/01] Many college libraries report that fewer and fewer students are using their facilities -- studying in their dormitories, using the Internet to track down ...More!

Has Automation Changed The Research Library? [11/12/01] Take a glance at the October issue of The New Criterion on how the computer "has furnished an irresistible pretext for...More!

Frameworks for Reading, Writing, and Communication [12/19/01] Important aspects of how students spend their time and what the institution asks them to do, which directly and indirectly affect their engagement...More!

California State University Fresno - Student Services [12/01/01] No remedial tutoring. Some remedial services offered in reading, writing, math, study skills...More!

Spider and Turtle live in different countries [11/09/94] They first meet when Turtle, famished from traveling a long way from home, comes upon Spider's house. While Spider...More!

The Calif. Experience in Teaching Reading [Sept. 1, 1995] It may be only advisory with State urging "systematic, explicit phonics, spelling, and basic computational skills."...More!

Original University Grants & Research Office Website [April 9, 1995] Research is booming at Fresno State where a growing amount of support for grad studies range from technologies to groundbreaking experiments in cell genetics. We designed, built & maintained the original UGRO online WebSite for Fresno Stat. Now one of the largest in the West...More!

Reading Specialist Innovations [12/12/81] Recently, one of my doctoral students at the USC presented very impressive work he had written.It set out a wonderful new approach to teaching reading and writing. He called it the "computer learning model"...More!

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