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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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Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

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Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level. BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez, known as Ms.

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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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The Sand Creek Massacre

Teaching American History

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Plains Indian Tribes such as the Cheyenne and Arapaho were not united under a governing alliance. Captain Silas Soule 1863 or 1864. Soule fired first, wounding Squier in the arm.

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Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union

Teaching American History

c1903 from photo taken on May 16, 1861) Library of Congress. Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government and consequent prosperity. Abraham Lincoln. Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries.

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