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Bill Gates Worries Kids Today May Be Missing Out on a Crucial Advantage

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Ridgewood NJ, Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, recently shared his concerns about a critical advantage today’s children might miss out on—unstructured free time to explore, think deeply, and read. Gates credits this freedom during his own youth as a foundation for his successful career, noting how modern distractions like smartphones and social media may hinder similar growth for young people today.

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Helping Public Libraries Reduce Cost and Improve Services

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Ridgewood NJ, Libraries would be able to dispose of outdated material without going out to bid under legislation sponsored by Senator Kip Bateman and advanced today by the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee.

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Efficient Ways to Teach Your Kid to Read

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Every milestone that children achieve is celebrated and applauded by both teachers and parents alike, especially now that technology provides easy and simple means to document these events through videos and pictures. The same technology could help in aiding and assisting eager parents and teachers in teaching children how to read. 

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Most Common Ways to Make Your Essay Better

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Ridgewood NJ, One of the most exasperating and daunting tasks that college students face is writing an essay. Some get to learn how to equip themselves with the efficient essay writing skills. Others,
however, tend to encounter challenges in approaching their papers. But, they cannot avoid writing their essays. This is because it is a mandatory task in college. Additionally, it reflects on
the performance of a student in a vast manner. Hence, it is crucial that every student learn how to write good essays. They will help boost their grades thus their GPA.
While it may be challenging to find means and methods to improve your essay writing skills, an effective way to do so is editing. When you edit your essay before submission, you are
sure of getting better grades. So, taking a few minutes to go though your paper is worthwhile. It can help you note whether your paper corresponds to the topic in discussion. Also, you can note
whether your essay structure is logical. Moreover, there are other common techniques you can embrace to write a better essay. And, to achieve this, below are some creative writing techniques
for students experts from https://customessayorder.com/ recommend you consider.

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September is Ridgewood Library Card Sign-up Month!

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Ridgewood NJ, September is Library Card Sign-up Month! Visit the Library to get a free replacement card if you lost yours. All you need is proof of your Ridgewood address.

125 N Maple Ave
Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Phone number
(201) 670-5600

www.ridgewoodlibrary.org

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Publishers Week’s editors have selected a wide variety of summer books for all tastes , Check them out at the Ridgewood Public Library

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July 27,2017

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Ridgewood NJ, Publishers Week’s editors have selected a wide variety of summer books for all tastes. In our staff picks, you’ll find Lincoln Child’s thriller featuring werewolves in the Adirondacks, Lydia Davis’s translation of Marcel Proust’s letters to his neighbor, Chiara Barzini’s coming-of-age novel set against the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and many more. For deeper dives into fiction, mystery/thriller, romance, sci-fi, nonfiction, and children’s, check out our category picks for even more great summer books. Happy reading!

The Ridgewood Public Library is dedicated to providing information, education, culture and inspiration. We encourage our community to pursue life long learning and the enjoyment of books, programs and resources in a variety of formats. We strive to offer the best possible library materials, staff, technology and facility, with ready and equal access to residents of all ages.

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Politicians Should be Forced to Read the “Paris Accord” before pledging Your Tax dollars to It

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June 6,2017

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Ridgewood NJ, according to the PATCH ,Glen Rock Mayor Bruce Packer is joining with nearly 190 other mayors across the United States in the fight against global warming.

Politico tells us that three Democratic candidates for governor have pledged that, if elected, New Jersey will keep following the requirements of the Paris climate accord regardless of President Trump’s decision last week to withdraw the United States from the international pact.

Former U.S. ambassador Phil Murphy, Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), and former U.S. Treasury official Jim Johnson all said last week that they would follow the lead of California, Massachusetts, New York, Washington and other states that have committed to keep following the Paris agreement in the wake of Trump’s decision.

Our questions is has anyone of these politicians read the “Paris Accord”  ? Did you miss the part where American taxpayers will be sending over a $100 billion dollars over seas in a massive transfer of wealth with almost no impact on climate at all?

The Clean Power Plan and oil fee taken together would have an effect comparable to a $30-per-ton carbon tax, which would cost households in the lowest income quintile $20 billion annually. That is equivalent to raising their federal tax burden more than 160 percent. Crushing the poor whom energy is a far larger part of their overall expenses.

Sorry climate alarmist , the sum of many pledges to do nothing is: nothing. When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology compiled the pledges and compared them with its own preexisting projection, it found a temperature reduction by 2100 of only 0.2°C and when the analysts compared the pledges with the projection created by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change back in 2000, they found no improvement at all.

This is all before you discuss weather “climate change”  is not science but nothing more than a hoax ,like Y2K  to generate subsidies  for a handful of rich and powerful ,destroying the American middle class  and make themselves even richer off taxpayer funded mandates.
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Ridgewood Artist and Author To Read their New Children’s Fiction Entitled “Little Karl” at Bergen Community College

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November 29,2016

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Bergen Community College
Child Development Center
Activities day, November 30th  ,10am

Paramus NJ, Lifelong Ridgewood resident, and local artist E. A. Santoli has teamed up with children’s book author M. Earl Smith to publish their first work of children’s fiction. Entitled Little Karl, the story recounts a day in the life of Little Karl, who, while touring his hometown with his mother, becomes acutely aware of the many injustices in his world. Through several familiar scenarios,Karl attempts to rationalize the world and his place in it, which leads him to embrace the values of fairness and equality in direct challenge to the unhappiness he sees everyday.

Beginning around 10:00am, Martin will read the book to the children and then after the story,  he will discuss the book with the children and Eric will write down their ideas with illustrations.

After the story discussion, we will have activities set up in two classrooms that relate to the story line for children to participate in. For example, the story has a little dog in it that is hungry and needs to be taken care of. We will set up a pretend “veterinarian office”  for children to pretend to take care of the little dog” Another idea we came up with is Eric and Martin can sit with the children and they can write their own stories with Eric helping them illustrate it. Martin will have a book signing table to purchase the book.

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WHAT Students Read Matters More Than You Think

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Daniel Lattier | February 9, 2016

In today’s standards-based education system, the main focus is on teaching skills rather than content. There’s a prevalent idea that it matters less what students read just so long as they are reading.

But according to E.D. Hirsch, professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, that’s bull.

Some of you may know Hirsch through his famous advocacy of “cultural literacy”—the idea that some amount of “shared, canonical knowledge is inherently necessary to a literate democracy,” and that students in a particular culture should have common exposure to certain texts and concepts.

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