On April 4, 2019, Rachel Nobel’s Learning Curve column for the United Federation of Teachers was titled The importance of having a school library. She cited the Phi Delta Kappan article I co-authored last year with Debra E. Kachel titled … Continue reading
On February 25, 2019, Sara Stevenson, a former public school librarian, authored an article titled Librarians Are Teachers for TribTalk: Perspectives on Texas, an online publication of The Texas Tribune. In this article, she cites the school library impact studies … Continue reading
On October 30, 2018, Library Journal published the 11th edition of America’s Star Libraries, the annual results of the ratings of U.S. public libraries based on the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Libraries are scored on the Index … Continue reading
On October 10, 2018, the Los Angeles Times published Stephen Krashen’s letter to the editor, replying to their Oct 9 opinion piece, Tests scores don’t matter to students’ grades, so of course they haven’t improved enough. In it, he makes … Continue reading
On October 1, 2018, Keith and his RSL Research Group colleagues Marcia J. Rodney and Bill Schwarz began working on an IMLS-funded National Leadership Grant planning project called PRISM–PRISon libraries as Motivators of pro-social behavior and successful re-entry. The goal … Continue reading
On September 20, 2018, Stephen Krashen (professor emeritus at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California) wrote a letter to the editors of the New York Times, titled Libraries Help Alleviate Poverty and Rural Isolation, in which he … Continue reading
On August 14, 2018, Rob Carter of Wicked Local Concord (The Concord Journal online) published an interview with Concord-Carlisle High School librarian and researcher Robin Cicchetti about her collaboration with then-Rutgers University professor Carol Gordon, The Massachusetts School Library Study: … Continue reading
On May 21, 2018, FORBES magazine published an article titled U.S. Public Schools Have Lost Nearly 20% Of Their Librarians Since 2000. This article cites my main article in School Library Journal in March 2018 and Debra E. Kachel’s and … Continue reading
On May 16, 2018, EDWEEK published an article titled Schools See Steep Drop in Librarians, New Analysis Finds. The Phi Delta Kappan article by Debra E. Kachel and me is cited in this article, along with other analyses replicating and … Continue reading
In the April 2018 issue of Teacher Librarian magazine, Debra E. Kachel and I published Changing Times: School Librarian Staffing Status, an article discussing the many factors contributing to the decline in the number of school librarians in U.S. public … Continue reading