Re: [LM_NET] Texas School Board=?windows-1252?Q?=92s?= Cultural Imperia lism

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>]

From the commentary posted....

"....Though Texas K-12 students comprise only approximately 8.5% (4.7
million) of the estimated 55.2 million students nationwide, Texas is the
second largest textbook market for book publishers. The curricular changes
in Texas, therefore, have implications for the content in textbooks
nationwide."


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Which is ALL the more reason why EVERY school should have a certified school
librarian on their staff to assist teachers in providing resources, content,
and materials to supplement textbooks and to provide additional information
that will reflect the instructional curriculum, as well as the community's
views, in the instruction of United States history.  Regardless of the
personal opinions held by a particular group of 12 individuals in ANY state
across this great nation, the ability to search for and locate the truth---
to teach students (and teachers) how to distinguish between "good and bad
information"---- and the abililty to document those details to provide
evidence to others within the community that the information presented
is important to learn for the future of our nation--- all of these skills
are much more important than the tedious arguments over information that 12
people in Texas (or 65 million people across the nation) "think" students
should know!  The important issue is providing those students with the
SKILLS to locate and correctly utilize the correct information in order to
develop their own ideas and to create new ways of addressing such outdated
(and mind-numbing) issues that we face today.

It's not about what's in the textbooks anymore!    Administrators....save
your money....hire a certified school librarian!!

Just my rant for the day!

~Shonda

-- 
Shonda Brisco
Assistant Professor / Curriculum Materials Librarian
Mary L. Williams Curriculum Materials Library
001 Willard Hall
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
http://www.library.okstate.edu/cml/index.htm
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sbrisco@gmail.com

http://okschoollibrarians.wikispaces.com

"Digital Resources" columnist
School Library Journal

"It is more than ironic that school districts are willing to spend
hundreds of thousands of dollars on reading programs and staff
development which have had limited success in boosting test scores,
but are unwilling to invest in school library programs that show direct
correlations to student success."

~ Douglas Achterman,  2008 Study of California School Libraries
http://www.lrs.org/impact.php

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