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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

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For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Let’s put her in the library.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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She also recommends working with county and state officials to track what’s working in other districts, and she suggested keeping the district’s “external auditor on speed dial” to make sure that any new steps being taken are within the appropriate guidelines and deadlines, which also remain subject to change. Staying Organized and Healthy.

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On the importance of making a (reopening) plan

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After seeing Cathi’s message on the Future Ready Librarians’ Facebook Group , librarian Kim Borden, from the Penn Argyl (PA) School District, responded to the call. Pen Argyl school libraries are where you find the pulse of the schools. What do we know? Pen Argyl schools are the heart of the local community. What can we do?

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. She now serves as the policy and advocacy director for SIECUS, a national nonprofit advocating for sex education.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The teachers learned about the Tougaloo Nine , a group of students from historically black Tougaloo College in Jackson, who staged read-ins at the white-only Jackson Municipal Library in 1961. 0 — Number of fourth-grade classrooms in Mississippi that use a social studies textbook published more recently than 2006.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

Here’s the Fortune headline from 11 November 2016 – two days after the Presidential election: “ Mark Zuckerberg Says Fake News on Facebook Affecting the Election Is a ‘Crazy Idea’ ” A year and a bit later, it’s not such a crazy idea after all – even Zuck has admitted as much.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”