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  • Yahoo! Teachers
    By Staff - 10/01/2007
    Spread the word: Yahoo! has developed a free social networking site that lets librarians create, modify, and share standards-based curricula. Yahoo! Teachers lets educators search a specific subject and then pull up a list of preselected sites that adhere to state standards in math, science, social studies, and language arts. More

  • Consider the Source: Cracking Open
    By Marc Aronson - 04/01/2008
    Teens don’t know enough about history and literature to tie their own shoelaces. That’s more or less the conclusion of a study I read about in the New York Times (see “Survey Finds Teenagers Ignorant on Basic History and Literature Questions,” February 27, 2008). Common Core—a nonpartisan research and advocacy group that favors more teaching of the liberal arts in ... More
  • [Librarians]=Higher Test Scores
    By Staff - 03/01/2008
    Here’s some more evidence that school librarians are essential to student learning: researchers at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (iSchool) have found that students who attend New York schools with certified media specialists have higher scores on their fourth- grade English Language Arts (ELA) test. More
  • The Sower: Interview with Keith Curry Lance
    By Doug Achterman - 10/01/2007
    Without a doubt, he’s the Johnny Appleseed of school library research. But Keith Curry Lance is far too modest to accept this, or any other, accolade (Dr. Data? The Prince of Predictors?). “I just happened to be in the right place at the right time,” says Lance. That place was the Colorado Department of Education, which Lance has been affiliated with since 1985, right after he... More
  • The Trouble with The Gold Standard: School Libraries & Research
    By Carol Gordon - 10/01/2007
    Strongly held beliefs die hard, even when they are unfounded or lack evidence. Some still believe that fish is brain food and rumors of Elvis sightings continue to fly through cyberspace. Other times, unfounded beliefs are denials of an uncomfortable or “inconvenient truth.” For example, the denial of global warming was a dangerous, unfounded belief that persisted for years despite ... More
  • High-Stakes Testing Threatens School Librarians
    By Chris Lehmann - 07/01/2007
    As school districts nationwide face budget cuts, the role of the librarian—not to mention media centers themselves—are being called into question like never before. While some argue that the digital age has made the librarian obsolete, I believe that librarians face a far more insidious threat—the growing reliance on high-stakes testing. More
  • Thomson Learning, Including Thomson Gale, Sold for $7.75 Billion
    By SLJ Staff - 05/14/2007
    The Thomson Corporation has agreed to sell Thomson Learning, which includes the library reference company Thomson Gale, to to Apax Partners (Apax) and OMERS Capital Partners (OMERS) for $7.75 billion. More
  • Elementary Schools Fail to Provide High Quality Instruction
    Debra Lau Whelan - 04/11/2007
    With everyone so obsessed with No Child Left Behind and student achievement, you'd think that today's kids are getting a better education. More
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