New Study: Holding Kids Back One Key Factor in Mississippi’s Reading Revolution (The 74)

by Erin Xu | Feb 15, 2023 | National News, News

Kirsten Slungaard Mumma and Marcus A. Winters are cited. Read News item Policy Brief Working...

Politics and school libraries: What shapes students’ access to controversial content (Brookings Institution)

by Erin Xu | Feb 14, 2023 | National News, News

Politics and school libraries: What shapes students’ access to controversial content (Brookings Institution) BROOKINGS – School libraries have become a key battleground in contemporary culture wars over public education. In the 2021-22 school year, PEN America...

Students want new books. Thanks to restrictions, librarians can’t buy them (Washington Post)

by Erin Xu | Jan 22, 2023 | National News, News

Students want new books. Thanks to restrictions, librarians can’t buy them (Washington Post) WASHINGTON POST – In one Texas school district, school librarians have ordered 6,000 fewer books this year than the year before, because under a new rule parents must...

What Book Bans Are Doing to School Library Purchases (Education Week)

by Erin Xu | Jan 6, 2023 | National News, News

What Book Bans Are Doing to School Library Purchases (Education Week) EDUCATION WEEK – As books are banned and challenged across the country, they might have a much larger impact than the removal of a few titles: They may be changing the makeup of entire school...

Kids Left Schools Last Year Because of the Switch to Remote Classes; Early Numbers Suggest They May Not Be Coming Back Soon (The 74)

by Anna Cayco | Oct 25, 2021 | National News, News

Kids Left Schools Last Year Because of the Switch to Remote Classes; Early Numbers Suggest They May Not Be Coming Back Soon (The 74) The 74 MILLION – With the release of new data in recent months, a clearer picture is emerging of how K-12 enrollment has...

4 trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19 (The Conversation)

by Anna Cayco | Oct 11, 2021 | National News, News

4 trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19 (The Conversation) THE CONVERSATION – When schools began the fall semester of 2020 – six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic – many of them reported a significant decline in...