IN THE NEWS: Grant Volunteer Blabs About Books

So what’s all this, then? Children absorbed in text that is not a text message? Young heads bowed reverently over handheld entertainment devices not made by Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony? No iAnythings? Anywhere? Strange, but shockingly true. Counter to everything we think we know about today’s plugged-in kids, the students who gathered in this McKinley Elementary School conference room are up to their happy eyeballs in books. Read more from UT San Diego»