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June 19, 2009

Students in the Milwaukee Public Schools are turning their academic careers around and making incredible progress with their reading skills in READ180®, a program that is expanding in the city. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel tells their story.

June 17, 2009

The front page story in USA Today on Monday, June 8 "Teachers Snub Scholastic's Toys" was revised online the same day to give a more accurate picture of the items sold in Scholastic Book Clubs and Book Fairs. The sentence below in BOLD was added to the story after Scholastic shared with the reporter's editor the details of the flawed report by the advocacy group. This information had been made available to the reporter but was omitted from the original report.

"The watchdog group says one third of the items sold in Scholastic's 2008 elementary and middle-school catalogs were either not books or books packaged with other non-book items. Besides toys, non-book items sold include stickers, science activity kits, math brain teasers, electronic dictionaries and audiobooks."

In addition, the "one third" quoted by the advocacy group includes an eight-book set of books that comes with a sticker, other books and collections with posters and a diary.

USA TODAY CORRECTS THE RECORD

USA Today published the following three letters to the editor: One from Scholastic’s CEO, one from a parent and one from a teacher.

USA Today
June 15, 2009
Scholastic makes reading 'relevant and cool'

May 18, 2009

Here at Scholastic, we really love reading and most of all, we are thrilled when we get kids excited about books. And you will be too when you watch this story from Better TV on the Scholastic Summer Challenge. Together with John Hopkins University and Save the Children, we're ramping up the fun for the summer!

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