Mr. Doctrow: If I wanted to rescue novels as a culturally relevant mainstream industry (and I do), I’d put the majority of my effort into figuring out ways to get a wide variety of books in front of people who don’t go to bookstores. Ms. Ghareeb: They have this already. It’s called a Library. [...]
I just finished watching this episode, and I thought it was absolutely darling, Not just bcause of the completely sweet replica Book Cart cake they made, or the awesome “Federalist Papers” themed cake (seriously, is this the book episode or what!) but they go on and on about us librarians! Apparently, Duff would make a [...]
Roses are Red Violets are Blue We write ‘em and read ‘em Our new Poetry Crew! Over 50 students showed up for yesterday’s lunchtime Poetry Reading in the library; and not just a bunch of GATE kids, either. We had a group of 6th grade boys laugh at all the mentions of love, 8th grade [...]
Long Beach Unified has just published the results of a comprehensive budget survey, designed to help identify priority programs as huge budget cuts loom. There were almost 6200 responses and among the top results were elementary and middle school libraries. Here are the results broken down for middle school: This tells me a few things [...]
“Omigod! I would totally kill for her API!” We had an interesting discussion at our faculty meeting yesterday morning: if we could have any intervention to raise student achievement, what could it be? “Raising student achievement?” This is Edu-code for test scores and everyone knows it. And I had an epiphany. I know a great [...]
