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New Owners Will End The Weekly Reader

July 25, 2012 | 2:40 PM

The new owners of The Weekly Reader confirmed the magazine will not be back this fall. We really could have used the results of their student presidential poll. Students have correctly predicted every election since Eisenhower defeated Stevenson, except one — Bill Clinton’s 1992 victory against George H.W. Bush.


The current-events magazine Weekly Reader, a classroom fixture since 1928, will not be returning from summer vacation, its new owner, Scholastic, confirmed this week. Instead, Scholastic will fold the publication into its own weekly magazine, Scholastic News; the first issues will be co-branded with both names, Kyle Good, a spokeswoman for Scholastic, wrote in an e-mail.

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