It’s Time for ‘Glee’ to Make Room for a Genuine Librarian | Soapbox
The Golden Globe and Peabody Award–winning Fox series Glee, now in its third season, has revamped the tired reputations of both glee clubs and TV musicals. Can it do the same for school librarians?...
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Soapbox: Not Fast Enough
In reviewing the results of School Library Journal’s 2012 School Technology Survey of U.S. school libraries, I’m drawn to several poker analogies. And I know enough about the game and the profession of...
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Open Late: Libraries Must Be Available When Kids Do Schoolwork | Soap Box
We think of today’s youth as constantly connected. Smartphones serve as extra appendages, and the coolness factor goes up for whoever discovers the latest mobile app first. More than ever, education...
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Not as We Remember It: Public Education Is Being Gutted | Soapbox
It’s called “school reform” with a focus on “student achievement,” but I shudder to think where we have come as a nation that many public schools don’t have a library, and won’t ever get one unless...
View ArticleHey, ‘Glee.’ Get Real: It’s time for the TV series to make room for a genuine...
The Golden Globe and Peabody Award–winning Fox series Glee, now in its third season, has revamped the tired reputations of both glee clubs and TV musicals. Can it do the same for school librarians?...
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Why Reading Sucks: Talking honestly with kids might make them more passionate...
I try to help my students be passionate readers. To be the type of children who fit reading in whenever they can, who bring books with them wherever they go, who cannot wait to get to the next books...
View ArticleAnother School of Thought | Soapbox
It’s time to educate media specialists in schools of education As a doctoral student hoping to teach school library courses at a university, I may be shooting myself in the foot to say this: school...
View ArticleMySpace Can Be Our Space | Soapbox
Let’s turn the infamous networking site into a teachable moment I’m sure that the headlines and their dire warnings about cyberstalkers help sell papers and convince TV viewers to stay tuned to hear...
View ArticleKilling Me Softly: No Child Left Behind | Soap Box
The President’s education plan is hurting students and teachers I feel like the last marine who got out before the siege of Khe Sanh. I feel like the one Titanic band member who overslept, missed the...
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School and Academic Librarians Must Join Forces to Foster College Readiness
Too often, post-secondary librarians complain that teens enter their libraries with subpar information literacy skills. For students to be college ready, they need to start “learning how to learn” much...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to School Librarians: Silence Is not Golden | Opinion
Every day students of different races, nationalities, and sexual orientations walk through our library doors. The library must be a safe space for them, since the outside world has become increasingly...
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