The Public Library: What Can We Do for Your Students?.

Abstract

In these days of increased testing and continued failure of inner-city and poor rural schools to meet the grade, it is becoming more and more necessary to turn to the public library to help our students reach the ever-increasing goals being set for them. Face it – schools have limited access to students during crucial times in literacy development, specifically in the early years, when the level of development has been proven to play a major role in later student achievement. It seems somewhat unfair to hold our schools solely responsible for continued failure when the simple fact is that too many students arrive at school too late. To overcome this obstacle, those in the know are turning to their public libraries to support early and continued literacy experiences above and beyond what is already being accomplished in our schools. The public library, being the only free government-funded educational service available to children from birth through adolescence, remains an invaluable resource in the area of child literacy development (Armstrong, et.al, 1997).

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