They call for intensive reading instruction for struggling students; an exit exam for students before receiving their diploma; peer review and support for teachers; and an accountability system that would rank all 8, 000 schools and set up rewards and sanctions for the 430 worst-performing campuses.
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"They have to be motivated to be here, " said Linda Miller, who teaches an intensive reading and math class at Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla ., part of the Broward County school district, which requires summer school for those who fail the state Comprehensive Assessment Tests.
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On December 14, 1914, following on an intensive reading of the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, Milosz experienced an illumination, a divine vision that he described to one of his friends as " I have seen the spiritual sun . " On the wake of this vision, his poetry became more hermetic and more mature.
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Based in Silverlake, Los Angeles Empire Red Lip focused on collaborative projects, each stemming from intensive reading of a text : " The Conquest of the New World ", for example, stemmed from the writing of Bartolom?de las Casas; " Murdered Sleep and White Cold Virgin Snow " were oblique commentaries on plays by William Shakespeare.
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Big Brother Mouse, a literacy project that sponsored the program, began conducting a study in 2013 to measure reading and vocabulary improvements in schools that got this program . In language learning, extensive reading is contrasted with " intensive reading ", which is slow, careful reading of a small amount of difficult text it is when one is " focused on the language rather than the text ".
