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Do something selfless today. This is the last week in which you can participate in the "School Libraries Count!" longitudinal study by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). "The more we know, the more powerful advocates we can be for our libraries at the local, state, and national levels," says Nancy Everhart, chair of the AASL Research and Statistics Committee. "Participation from those who completed the survey last year is equally valuable this year."
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Thinkfinity.org is the Verizon Foundation's free online portal to 55,000 educational and literacy resources for teachers, parents, and students and includes standards-based, grade-specific, K–12 lesson plans and interactive projects. Site content is provided through a partnership between the Verizon Foundation and 11 national education and literacy organizations, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Reading Association, National Center for Family Literacy, National Council on Economic Education, National Geographic Society, ProLiteracy Worldwide, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. read more... |
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A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee
From SLJ March 2008
 PreS-K–James and Eamon spend a week at Eamon’s grandparents' beach house. The boys go to nature camp during the day and delight Bill and Pam (the grandparents) at night with their antics. |
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Amazing Kids of Character
Gr 3-6–This series focuses on three important facets of character–courage, empathy, and perseverance. Each segment features youngsters discussing the meaning of the particular character quality and three children who demonstrate the trait. |
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Jazz
Gr 4-9–Walter Dean Myers’s fabulous book (Holiday House, 2006) is even better in this audio version. Winner of the 2008 Odyssey Award for excellence in children’s audiobook production, it opens with an extensive introduction to the history of jazz, and then explodes into Christopher Meyers’s lively acrylic-and-black-ink paintings of musicians on vividly colored pages. |
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| News and Views |
| Most High School Students Admit to Cheating |
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A whopping 95 percent of high school students say they've cheated during the course of their education, ranging from letting somebody copy their homework to test-cheating, a Rutgers University professor reports.
"There's a fair amount of cheating going on, and students aren't all that concerned about it," says Donald McCabe, a professor of management and global business at New Jersey-based Rutgers. read more... |
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| California Ruling: Teaching Credentials Are Needed to Homeschool |
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"Parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children," a California appellate judge has ruled, stating specifically that parents without teaching credentials may not educate kids at home. The ruling is sending shock waves through the Golden State's homeschooling community.
On February 28 the Second District Court of Appeal, which has jurisdiction over Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties, announced its ruling in the case of a Lynwood, CA, family who repeatedly had been referred to the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services, due to claims of physical abuse involving their eight children. read more... |
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| Fresh Approaches: Noteworthy New Editions and Reissues |
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 Comic Book Comeback: The Return of "Classics Illustrated"
Papercutz, publisher of graphic-novel series such as The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Tales from the Crypt, is revitalizing the "Classics Illustrated" line of comic books. Originally created by publisher Albert Lewis Kanter (1897-1973) in 1941, these serialized comic-book adaptations of great literary works remained popular with readers for 30 years. In 1990, the line was revived by the Berkley Publishing Group and First Publishing in graphic-novel/book format with adaptations by well-known graphic novelists including Rick Geary, Bill Sienkiewicz, Kyle Baker, and Gahan Wilson. read more... |
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United States Military Academy
West Point, NY
The Military Academy is the Army's premier education institution and has much in common with the best undergraduate institutions in the nation. The student body consists of 4400 men and women representing every state and several foreign countries. The military academy faculty is an integrated group of military and civilian educators. In addition to a core curriculum of academic and professional courses, majors are offered in over 20 fields. read more...
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