Tune-In to Reading is a software program to help struggling readers, but the Tampa-based creators originally intended it as a tool to improve singing skills! Three years of research by Dr. Susan Homan and the USF College of Education has shown significant improvement in grade-level reading. It's now being used in 75 schools across Florida and is being implemented in New York and Texas.
Paula Huntley is the author of The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo; she talks to The Arts Connection's Irene Zabytko about her book, based on her experience of teaching english in the war torn country in 2000.
The Arts Connection's Katie Ball talks with Bobby Braddock, one of the greatest songwriters in the history of Nashville’s Music Row. His memoir, DOWN IN ORBURNDALE: A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida, looks at growing up in pre-Disney World small-town Central Florida.
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