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  2. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Also in 2016, Quizlet launched "Quizlet Live", a real-time online matching game where teams compete to answer all 12 questions correctly without an incorrect answer along the way. [15] In 2017, Quizlet created a premium offering called "Quizlet Go" (later renamed "Quizlet Plus"), with additional features available for paid subscribers.

  3. Sisterhood Is Powerful - Wikipedia

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    Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement is a 1970 anthology of feminist writings edited by Robin Morgan, a feminist poet and founding member of New York Radical Women. [1] It is one of the first widely available anthologies of second-wave feminism.

  4. National Reading Panel - Wikipedia

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    There is a widely held belief that if teachers encouraged students to engage in voluntary reading it would lead to better reading achievement. Unfortunately, the panel found that research "has not clearly demonstrated this relationship". In fact, the few studies in which this idea has been tried "raise serious questions" of its efficacy. [9]

  5. Literacy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    NAEP reading assessment results are reported as average scores on a 0–500 scale. [44] The Basic Level is 208 and the Proficient Level is 238. [45] The average reading score for grade-four public school students was 219. [46] Female students had an average score that was 7 points higher than male students.

  6. Literacy - Wikipedia

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    Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural ...

  7. Indigenous storytelling in North America - Wikipedia

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    This story explains why the buffalo were so integral to the plains culture. It also helps explain why every part of the buffalo was used and not much went to waste due to their cultural respect for the animal. [4] A similar story is called the Medicine Dance. In this story, the creator noticed that people were sick and dying.

  8. Achievement gaps in the United States - Wikipedia

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    According to the 2004 National Reading Assessment measured by the US Department of Education, the gap between boys and girls, only slightly noticeable in 4th grade, left boys 14 points behind girls during their 12th grade year. [11] On the 2008 test, female students continued to have higher average reading scores than male students at all three ...

  9. Democracy in America - Wikipedia

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    The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United States to what he sees as the failings of democracy in his native France.