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		<title>Report Card Translation, Please!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s report card time again.¬† Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve come to dread reading my boys&#8217; reports as much¬†as the mutual fund statements¬†I get from the bank.¬† It&#8217;s not the marks that are the problem.¬† It&#8217;s the commentary.¬† I could spend thirty minutes¬†reading every sentence provided by the teacher along the right column of the page, but I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Book Your Son Will Read</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Potter doesn&#8217;t do it for my nine-year old son.¬† While he did not start out as a reluctant reader, I&#8217;m beginning to think he&#8217;s headed in that direction.¬† Only a year ago, he would hop off the school bus with a chapter book in hand, touting that he&#8217;d read halfway through it during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need to Convince Your Son to Get a Book?</title>
		<link>http://porridgereport.com/2009/01/27/need-to-convince-your-son-to-get-a-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a parent of boys, you likely have experienced exhaustion in your efforts to convince your son(s) to pick up a book.¬†¬†If you&#8217;ve run out of reasons, here&#8217;s one more that¬†I&#8217;ll bet you&#8217;ve¬†never thought of&#8230;¬†












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		<title>Youth Culture Going Digital</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mom, can I play computer?&#8221;¬† It&#8217;s a plea iterated in thousands of North American households every day.¬† How parents answer this question is as varied as the children themselves &#8211; from strict time limits to a free-for-all.¬† Yet as children morph into teenagers, parental control over the internet wanes, barriers evaporate, and the digital world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grade 1 Students Miss One in Six Words</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put on your shoes.¬† Put on your shoes.¬† Put on your shoes.¬† I don‚Äôt like to yell, really, I don‚Äôt.¬† My kids don‚Äôt believe me when I say this, but it‚Äôs true.¬† ¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†




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		<title>Trading Balls for Books &#8211; How to Encourage Your Boy to Read</title>
		<link>http://porridgereport.com/2008/08/15/trading-balls-for-books-how-to-encourage-your-boy-to-read/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throw a ball to a boy and he‚Äôll probably fire it back and launch a game into action. Hand that same boy a book and he‚Äôll probably fling it aside for a more compelling activity. Sound like a clich?©? Maybe not. The 2006 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) of fourth graders found girls [...]]]></description>
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