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Candlewick Turns to Pinterest to Promote its Common Core Offerings
Candlewick Press has announced the launch of a dedicated Pinterest page in order to promote its Common Core resources to teachers, library media specialists, booksellers, and parents. The publisher has...
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From Definition to Implementation, Librarians Embrace Common Core | AASL 2013
As expected, finding new and innovative ways to implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) was one of the hottest programming themes during last month’s annual American Association of School...
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Education Experts Divided on PISA Scores Showing U.S. Teens’ Flat Performance
American teens scored about average in reading and science and below average in mathematics compared to their counterparts around the world on the most recent Programme for International Student...
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Inquiry and Integration Across the Curriculum | Natural Selection and Adaptation
Steve Jenkins’s book Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) raises two intriguing questions about the millions of plants and animals living on Earth: Why have so many forms of...
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New York Resumes Town Halls to Promote Common Core’s Benefits
New York’s education commissioner and members of its Board of Regents will be speaking at two town hall events tonight, December 10, in New York City’s Brooklyn and Bronx boroughs to promote the Common...
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Librarian Creates Site for Teachers to Earn Digital Badges for New Skills
Even teachers need a little acknowledgment for learning new skills, according to Laura Fleming, a school library media specialist at New Milford High School in Bergen County, NJ. Through her site,...
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Scholastic Upgrades Nonfiction Program for the Common Core
Scholastic today announced the release of its new program for K–6 reading instruction aligned with the Common Core State Standards, a collection of nonfiction books and informational texts chosen by...
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‘Nation’s Report Card’ Shows Los Angeles, District of Columbia Reading Scores...
Fourth- and eighth-grade students in Los Angeles, the District of Columbia and Baltimore show strong reading achievement during the past two years, while students in Houston, Cleveland, and Austin are...
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NY District Returns ‘Nasreen’s Secret School’ to Third Grade Classrooms
In the Southold (NY) Union Free School District, third graders can continue to hear the story of a young girl’s experience under Taliban rule, as told in Jeanette Winter’s book, Nasreen’s Secret...
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PBS Digital Innovators Award; Latin@s in Kid Lit; Urban Librarians Conference...
PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators PBS LearningMedia has launched its Digital Innovators Program to recognize tech-savvy K–12 educators who are incorporating digital media in the classrooms...
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Washington State Representative Introduces Student Privacy Bill
Rep. Elizabeth Scott Washington State Representative Elizabeth Scott (R-Monroe) introduced a state bill, “HB 2133: Maintaining Privacy of Student Education Records,” this week that aims to protect the...
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No Fail Nonfiction for YA | JLG’s Booktalks to Go
So many books, so little time. It’s hard to sell something to readers that you haven’t had time to read yet, so SLJ is introducing JLG’s Booktalks to Go Teen. This monthly column will provide you with...
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Bellevue (WA) to Rehire School Librarians
Nancy’s Mowat’s 32-station library lab at Sherwood Forest Elementary was created in 2012 using extra hardware sourced from within BSD. Washington State’s Bellevue School District (BSD) is seeking to...
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Free Mackin Ebooks; Qlovi’s Common Core Platform; E-Rate Filing Opens | News...
A Mini-MOOC on Digital Publishing The Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Library at Wake Forest University has announced that it will present a ZSRx Digital Publishing mini-MOOC (massive open online course) that...
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Work and Wages: Inquiry Across the Curriculum | On Common Core
Stories about labor and the economy continue to dominate headline news. Statistics reflect the growing income gap as debates rage about raising the minimum wage, and tales about the underemployed...
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California School Librarians Look to Higher Ed during Advocacy Overhaul
Recent data from the California Department of Education confirming the dramatically low ratio of media specialists to students (about 1:7,000) has members of the California School Library Association...
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Librarians on the Common Core: Cautious Optimism
Illustration spot art by Otto Steiningerfrom SLJ‘s Cover story “What’s Happening at the Core?” While educators grapple with the Common Core State Standards, school librarians are finding aspects to...
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What’s Happening at the Core?
Illustration by Otto Steininger More on Common Core: Librarians on the CCSS Anchor standards. Text complexity. Ensuring college and career readiness. Whether you love them, hate them, or are...
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Text Sets: Your Chance to Lead the Common Core | Consider the Source
A few days before I flew off to meet publishers and wholesalers at the Educational Book and Media Association (EBMA) conference last month, I received an email that changed what I ended up speaking...
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With the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) rolling out across the country, educators are pulling together resources to help understand how the new initiative will affect their children. School...
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