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Poverty & Reading: The Sad and Troubling Loss of School Libraries and Real Librarians

April 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 59 Comments

My last post listed reasons why many children don’t learn to read. Poverty was behind many of the items. Poor students attend poor schools where they miss out on the arts, a whole curriculum, even qualified, well prepared teachers. Students might end up in “no excuses” charter schools with only digital learning. But, next to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reading Tagged With: America School libraries, charter schools, high-stakes testing, Librarians, Personalized Learning, poverty, school libraries, teachers, the loss of librarians, the loss of school libraries, U.K. librarians, U.K. reading, U.K. school Libraries

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