Professor mixes blend of quality environmental literature and music to create harmony in life (The Pointer)

A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point teaches English literature during the week and toots his whistle for crowds across the country on the weekends.

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Professor mixes blend of quality environmental literature and music to create harmony in life (The Pointer)

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Partners with CrossRef to Fight Plagiarism and Ensure Authenticity of Medical Literature … (Newswise)

Medical publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) has adopted a new tool to ensure the authenticity of content published in its professional journals and textbooks. LWW has implemented CrossCheck, an automated service offered by CrossRef in collaboration with iParadigms, LLC, to verify articles in more than 280 of their journals.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Partners with CrossRef to Fight Plagiarism and Ensure Authenticity of Medical Literature … (Newswise)

New bookstore brings street literature to the masses (Clinton Gazette)

CartelFW041609w_RGB/Raphael Talisman/The Gazette-Star/041309. Tony Tyles of Washington, D.C. owns the Cartel Cafe and Books in Oxon Hill.

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The Stuart Brent Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature — Stuart Brent Children’s Book Club Announces Winner Of … (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Stuart Brent Children’s Book Club has announced that the winner of its 2009 annual multicultural literature award “The Stuart Brent Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature” to author Nan Richardson and illustrator Claudia Pearson for their book Tribal Alphabet.

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The Stuart Brent Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature — Stuart Brent Children’s Book Club Announces Winner Of … (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Number taking GCSE in English literature falls (Guardian Unlimited)

More than a quarter of state school pupils do not take English literature GCSE, and children in the poorest parts of the country are least likely to be tested on their understanding of the classics at 16, new figures reveal. The proportion opting to do an English literature GCSE is declining, with 72% of state school pupils doing the literature GCSE last year compared with 77% five years ago, …

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Fox Island teen wins state literature contest (Peninsula Gateway)

Gig Harbor High School junior Michael Bouterse recently won the Washington State Letters About Literature contest with his piece about Sophie Scholl, who was executed by the Third Reich for her criticism of the German political party.

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Fox Island teen wins state literature contest (Peninsula Gateway)

Gove condemns "shocking" decline in English Literature GCSE (Conservative Party)

Michael Gove has highlighted “shocking” new figures that show that one in four sixteen-year olds are not sitting the GCSE English Literature exam.

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Teenagers ’shunning English literature’ at school (Daily Telegraph)

More than a quarter of teenagers are shunning GCSEs in English literature amid growing fears of a decline in reading in schools.

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Teenagers ’shunning English literature’ at school (Daily Telegraph)

Number taking GCSE in English literature falls (u.tv)

More than a quarter of state school pupils do not take English literature GCSE, and children in the poorest parts of the country are least likely to be tested on their understanding of the classics at 16, new figures reveal.

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Not to be: students spurn English literature GCSE (BBC News)

More than one in four teenagers in England do not sit English literature, sending the subject into decline, figures suggest.

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