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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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How the local public library helped one school district cope with Covid

The Hechinger Report

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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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. New Jersey officials acknowledge that theres a problem. They know how to ask for accommodations at work.

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The shuttering of a rural university reveals a surprising source of its financing

The Hechinger Report

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1 Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations.

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The Pandemic Fueled Gains in Digital Equity. But for Native Tribes, It’s Complicated.

ED Surge

federal government’s E-Rate program, which provides “universal service” funding to schools and libraries for telecommunications and internet, also said it wouldn’t pay for another project. But the company successfully ran fiber to Pine Hill School, a health clinic and the tribal government buildings. Early on, the U.S.

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OPINION: Access issues for students go beyond online content, extending to housing and food

The Hechinger Report

Economic disparities across education systems mean some students have access to laptops, to regular internet access, to printers. Students without home internet access will likely need to go to public spaces, such as libraries and restaurants, to keep up with their coursework. Access to content. Housing and food insecurity.