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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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Cuts at the NEH

ASHP CML

The shrinking of the NEH comes in addition to cuts to the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Smithsonian, and other organizations that support humanities, cultural and educational institutions, and they follow the new restrictions on projects deemed to promote DEI or gender ideology.

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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

She recently worked with a young woman who loves libraries. Her developmental disability prevented her from attending a traditional college, but she took courses online and became a librarians assistant at a public library in Long Island. They know how to ask for accommodations at work. She was so excited about the courses, said Kerne.

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

ED Surge

To right the ship, families, schools and future employers must work together to prioritize a meaningful investment and evidence-based approach in developing a diverse and technically skilled workforce who can thrive in a rapidly changing economic landscape.

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A Commitment to Digital Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Working with partners, they had to choose one painting from each category, study it by paying particular attention to the political, economic, religious, social, industrial, and/or artistic way in which it captures/criticizes some aspect(s) of the period 1500-1800, and record their impressions accordingly.

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New Tools for Building Social Studies Skills and Assigning and Grading Updates

TCI

Building Social Studies Skills New Economics Library: Economics concepts can be complex, but you can support student understanding of these concepts with the tools provided in the new Economics Library. Just like our other library materials, you can assign and grade items from the Economics Library.

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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Making Education Available to All

A Principal's Reflections

The economics are staggering. She explained that, while the choice of text is undoubtedly the prerogative of college professors, she seeks to inform them of the availability of comparable texts that are completely free of charge. Our audience was greatly interested in exploring these resources.

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