News and Issues for K-12 education from School Library Journal
Obama’s Pick for Secretary of Education Supports School Libraries By Debra Lau Whelan - 12/16/2008
Arne Duncan, the man President-elect Barack Obama has tapped as secretary of education, spent the last seven years as CEO of Chicago Public Schools—and during that time he’s shown solid support for school libraries. More
Miami-Dade Public Library Helps Kids With Reading Readiness By Lauren Barack - 11/23/2009
The Miami-Dade Public Library System (MDPLS) has a kicked off a new program that equips each of its 49 branches with brochures, bookmarks, and even laminated placemats covered in nursery rhymes that allow librarians to wrap the wonder of reading and early childhood literacy skills into freebies that bring those lessons home.
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PBS, NASA Partner to Help Educators With Climate Change Lessons By SLJ Staff - 11/06/2009
If you’re looking for a way to teach a lesson on climate change that includes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts, you’re in luck. PBS TeacherLine has partnered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create a series of professional development courses and teaching resources on the subject.
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Do You Believe in Magic? There's a good reason why so many families love storytimes By Renea Arnold and Nell Colburn - 11/01/2009
A colleague put a lovely image into our heads at a recent discussion of best practices for family storytimes. Librarian Maria Lowe offers family storytimes in the evenings, and she always includes a time for “family boats.” A mom and dad sit on the floor, join hands and encircle their children, or a single adult clasps his child in his arms, and they all begin to rock as Maria leads...
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Librarians: Forget Baby Einstein; Try Reading By Lauren Barack - 10/29/2009
Librarians and media specialists are secretly saying "I told you so" about the Walt Disney Company’s decision to issue a full refund on the Baby Einstein videos that parents have bought by the millions over the last five years.
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Race for Common Core Standards Begins By Lauren Barack - 10/08/2009
The nation is one step closer to a unified platform for educational standards, as the first draft of what students need before entering college, or launching their career, went live last month.
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Reading is Fundamental, but Literacy is Key By Lauren Barack - 10/07/2009
Students are taught to read in their early years of schooling—but that doesn’t mean they’re given the keys to comprehension. And it’s this skill that the Carnegie Corporation of New York believes is the cornerstone to academic—and lifelong—success, says a new report.
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Practically Paradise Diane Chen, Librarian, Hickman Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee March 6, 2007 The Perfect School Library
Welcome to the first posting of this new blog for SLJ. I appreciate the simplicity of... More
2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
HEIDE, Florence Parry. Princess Hyacinth: The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated. illus. by Lane Smith. unpaged. CIP. Random/Schwartz & Wade Bks. 2009. RTE $17.99. ISBN 978-0-375-84501-7; PLB $20.99. ISBN 978-0-375-93753-8. LC 2008039923.
PreS-Gr 2–Unless weighed down by her jewel-encrusted crown, diamond-embedded socks, or tied to her chair, Princess Hyacinth floats.
Celebrity decorator Evette Rios reads to enthusiastic second graders at the Brooklyn Brownstone School library as part of a First Book donation event. The Eight O' Clock Coffee brand and Candlewick Press are teaming up to contribute 20,000 books to children across the country through their partnership with First Book, an organization that provides new books to children in need.
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HEIDE, Florence Parry. 
