Reading Today Daily

I was just browsing the IRA website, and enjoying the Reading Today Daily feature.  Reading Today takes top news articles about literacy from other sources and writes up an abstract and provides the link to the article.  Tonight I read an abstract linked to an article from the Washington Post about a research study dealing with children's daily computer use as it relates to their standardized test scores.  I was able to follow the link and read the article, which seemed to show a positive outlook on computer usage, even gaming, increasing test scores.  I also read about a traveling exhibit from the Library of Congress called The Gateway to Knowledge, which would bring replicated famous objects around the country so that people can see them.  You can get the dates and cities on http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-195.html   There were several other short articles posted, and as I read them I thought, it is amazing how much information is readily available and easily accessible.  Filtering all of the information that is out there is so time consuming, so it's great that organizations like IRA are searching for the valuable, "good stuff" and putting it through on their website in quick doses.  I love being able to scan articles quickly for updates on research and news for literacy topics.  If you get a chance, visit IRA's website http://www.reading.org/ to see more of what I'm writing about!