The ELA debate continues without clear consensus on where teaching is trending and how school librarians factor into the equation. Susan Barber was shocked at what she was hearing at her district ...

School librarians are indispensable allies in literacy instruction. Amid mounting anxiety over literacy scores, reports of fewer students reading for pleasure, and fractured attention spans, the ...

Up to 65 Title I schools will receive $850 grants to purchase books from the Mathical Book Prize list. Presented by SLMath in partnership with SLJ, the Mathical Collection Development Awards will ...

★Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life by Candace Fleming. S. & S./Atheneum. 2005. ISBN 9780689865442. Grade 4-8–This presentation does for the longest-serving First ...

Throughout an ongoing court battle, the burden of enforcing SF 496 has largely fallen on districts and school librarians, who must scour shelves for “obscene” material and report removed books. Since ...

Librarians have long dealt with different and unclear rules regarding book bans and classroom teaching materials from state to state and even district to district. Now, some Republican lawmakers in ...

The Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association sued over the constitutionality of the law that has removed books from shelves; Florida Education Commissioner wants ...

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is now accepting applications for its All Readers Welcome grants; the AASL relaunched Standards portal; and more. The Society of ...