A consideration of how reading may change in retirement and old age, demonstrated in relation to five books by women.

The most recent OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey enables educators, policy makers and the wider community to compare Australian students with each other, as well as with their counterparts across the world. PISA measures the extent to which 15-year-old students near the end of compulsory education have acquired the…

Looks at the effect of the communications revolution and how media and people are coming together. The changing roles and responsibilities of teachers are discussed in light of this revolution. (Contains 27 references.) (Author/KRN)

This report describes public participation in the arts across the four U.S. census regions: the Northeast, the Midwest, the West, and the South. It incorporates data from the 1982, 1992, and 2002 Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts, as well as secondary data on regional demographics, the arts landscape, and consumer spending. In…