[Ohiogift] Fwd: Jago-Fitzhugh PLAN 6-41-6

[Will Fitzhugh]

	From: 	Carol Jago <jago at gseis.ucla.edu>
	Subject: 	Re: Jago-Fitzhugh PLAN
	Date: 	January 13, 2013 9:56:07 AM EST
	To: 	Will Fitzhugh <fitzhugh at tcr.org>


I love it! Amazing to consider the incredible waste of minds and time spent on World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto. 

Kids have the time. Like Bartleby, they just prefer not to.

Carol

http://www.caroljago.com


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On Jan 13, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Will Fitzhugh wrote:

> 
> 
> Carol Jago, Past President of NCTE, and Will Fitzhugh, penniless drudge at The Concord Review,
> 
> ARE pleased (proud, humble, thrilled, inspired, excited, etc.)
> 
> TO ANNOUNCE:
> 
> Their innovative, new, exciting, transformative, breakthrough:
> 
> THE SIX/FORTY-ONE/SIX Weekly Reading Plan for American Students
> 
> The Kaiser Foundation finds that Americans 8-18 spend 53 hours
> a week (A WEEK) with electronic entertainment media.
> 
> Jago and Fitzhugh propose a bold new initiative, potentially in collaboration
> with CCSSO, NGA, the College Board, NASSP, the Department of Education,
> and others, which will ask students to spend SIX HOURS a week reading
> a novel, SIX HOURS a week reading a history book, and that will still leave
> them Forty-One HOURS a Week, or nearly six hours each day, for their electronic
> entertainment media...
> 
> It could be called the 41/6/6/ Plan or the 6/6/41 Plan if either would appeal more to the media
> covering this transformative and bold new and exciting innovative initiative. 
> 
> Tweets and other comments on this exciting new initiative welcomed.
> 
> 
> 
> Will Fitzhugh






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