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Just Wanderful! Living Books Are Back!

The Daring Librarian

On Friday I was looking pensively at my boxed sets of the Living Books CD-ROM collection in my school library. Not any of our iBooks, MacBook Pros, eMacs (2003), or brand spanking new iMacs. I am so glad though that that kind of creativity and artistry has come back to the consumer.the student, and the school library!

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day. Andrea “Library” Johnson — nicknamed to avoid confusion with the principal, Ms.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

The Common Core. Hayden is the first new librarian of Congress since 1987,” The New York Times observed at her swearing in in September, “and brings with her another generation’s ideas about accessibility, technology and the role that libraries play in society.” Political correctness. Foreign students.