Where to Start? Common Core and Collection Development By Peg Glisson Collection Development! Boxes and boxes of new books arriving! Hurriedly unpacking and gazing at the covers! Paging through a new book and knowing it is exactly what you need! Is there anything like it? Truly, those are the positives of collection development. Then, there […]
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Bullying: The Bullies, the Bullied, and the By-standers Impact on Programming and Services By Sheilah Egan As the population grows and more people live closer together, we see that sheer numbers allow for increased incidents of all sorts of social ills, including a marked rise in every aspect of bullying. School districts around the country […]
Isn’t That Just for Schools?: Common Core and the Public Library, Part II
Isn’t That Just for Schools?: Common Core and the Public Library, Part II Impact on Programming and Services By Peg Glisson Let’s face it: Common Core challenges public libraries and librarians to answer the call for increased emphasis on literacy, rigorous learning, text complexity, and research. Last month’s article (Isn’t That Just for Schools, Pt. […]
Isn’t That Just for Schools?: Common Core and the Public Library, Part I
Isn’t That Just for Schools?: Common Core and the Public Library, Part I By Peg Glisson We’ve been hearing for years that American students are falling behind those in other countries. Many read below grade level and graduate with the ability to read at an eighth grade level at best. A variety of educational philosophies […]
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