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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

One fear expressed was about how the mostly Black and Latino students at 28 schools would fare under a plan created by new Superintendent Mike Miles that would require school libraries to cease, in essence, functioning as libraries. Demonstrators gather in August 2023 in protest of Houston ISD's plan to close libraries in schools.

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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. She recently worked with a young woman who loves libraries. That number dropped to 10 states in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. They know how to ask for accommodations at work.

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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

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rose-ringed or ring-necked parakeet) was included in The Naturalists Library , an illustrated natural history series popular in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a. To these species defense, one might point out that it wasnt their fault they ended up all over the world.

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As Schools Prioritize Digital Literacy, My Students Are Being Left Behind

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Google It As a student, part of my schooling involved library classes, computer classes and English classes, during which I received dedicated instructional time using Mozilla Firefox and Google to do research for school projects. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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Students Are Jumping Into The Fray Over Book Bans

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Samuels, 18, who uses they/them pronouns, started by beseeching their district to unblock websites like the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for queer youth, and to refrian from banning library books that featured LGBTQ+ characters or dealt with racism.

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Many ‘informal’ child care providers are entitled to pay. Most don’t know it

The Hechinger Report

million informal caregivers receive the subsidies or related payment, according to a 2022 report from the BUILD Initiative, which provides support to state leaders for early childhood programs. There are also state and locally-funded models for support. But nationally, less than 20 percent of the more than 4.5

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.