Reading and a Fun Contest! Tweets of the Day 10/9/12

Reading changed my life, too.

This looks like fun! 
 
1.  The Global Partnership for Education is proud to launch its first photo and video contest Reading Changed My Life. 

https://www.readingchangedmylife.org/landingpages/show/readingchangedmylife 

2. Partner Organizations of Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation

http://www.myasdf.org/site/about-asdf/partner-organizations/

He would have been a junior in high school at this time.  If the teacher were still living, he could open mouth, insert foot.

3. John Gurdon, Nobel Prize Winner In Physiology Or Medicine, Wasn't The Best Science Student 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/nobel-prize-winner-got-po_0_n_1952172.html 

4. Before a Test, a Poverty of Words

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/nyregion/for-poor-schoolchildren-a-poverty-of-words.html?utm_source=ReadingRockets.org&utm_medium=Twitter&_r=0 

5. Autism in America: The epidemic no one is talking about 

http://current.com/shows/the-war-room/videos/autism-in-america-the-epidemic-no-one-is-talking-about 

6. Students and Parents Debrief on Their First Social Media Summer Program

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/best-summer-school-knappmodo-joe-mazza 

7. Autism & Wandering: An Investigator’s Perspective 

http://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2012/10/08/autism-wandering-investigator%E2%80%99s-perspective 

Intelligent folks are stereotyped? (What a nerd thing to say.)

8. It’s Not Me, It’s You

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/intelligence-and-the-stereotype-threat.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 

9.  New Year's Resolution Reading List: 9 Books on Reading and Writing
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/09/best-books-on-writing-reading/