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In a virtual world, parents are striving to strike a balance between the need for a personal connection and the prerequisite to learn. While school learning comes with its own set of rules, extracurricular learning is an area where parents can get creative and let their own imagination and that of the child guide them in creating new and exciting means to learn.
There is no better way to learn than through stories. Many schools of education would agree with this thought. Especially Indian parents would agree because oral storytelling is such a big part of our culture. Remember your Nani’s soft hands stroking your hair, while she told you native folklore? And where are those stories now? They are in the collective memories of all who might have heard them. Author Sue Monk Kidd said, “Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.” So, as parents, it is our moral obligation to pass
Library Journal Names Librarian Reserve Corps founder, co-leads 2021 Librarian(s) of the Year
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Elaine R. Hicks, Stacy Brody and Sara Loree exemplify the library profession’s exemplary pandemic response
What makes our Librarians of the Year stand out, even in such company, is that they used their core librarianship information wrangling skills to literally help save lives. NEW YORK (PRWEB) January 11, 2021 Library Journal (LJ) has named Elaine R. Hicks, Stacy Brody, and Sara Loree, founder and co-leads of the Librarian Reserve Corps, as its 2021 Librarian(s) of the Year.
Hicks, Research, Education, and Public Health Librarian at Tulane University, New Orleans, rapidly created the Librarian Reserve Corps (LRC) in response to the World Health Organization’s need for timely, accurate, and searchable material about COVID-19. Brody, Reference and Instruction Librarian at the George Washington Univer
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Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce Celebrates 30th Anniversary
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Big Nate Celebrates 30 Years! (Copyright Lincoln Peirce/Andrews McMeel Universal)
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today marks the 30th anniversary of the debut of Lincoln Peirce’s beloved Big Nate, self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man, in newspaper comics pages worldwide. Appearing in more than 300 newspapers, online on GoComics, and in more than 14 million copies of New York Times bestselling collections (including comic collections, hardcover chapter books, activity books, boxed sets, and board books), Big Nate continues to captivate, (and to some adults, infuriate), through his antics and adventures in and out of the classroom with friends and family members.
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The reading and study of the classics used to be an important part of our educational system. There s plenty of material. English-language writers have written many famous books, and many works of literature from other languages have been translated into English.
Nowadays though, much of the market share of the classics has been taken over by the Young Adult Fiction genre, targeted to adolescents.
As Wikipedia describes it, The subject matter and genres of YA correlate with the age and experience of the protagonist. The genres available in YA are expansive and include most of those found in adult fiction. Common themes related to YA include friendship, first love, relationships, and identity. Stories that focus on the specific challenges of youth are sometimes referred to as problem novels or coming-of-age novels.
That would be, the kind of reads at odds with the presently-promoted morality.
As we chop away at messaging, lessons become simpler. Eventually gone, it seems, will be complex stories with a speckling of the good and bad.
Better, it appears, is the singular presentation of that which is wholly and only right.
Hence, the rise of #DisruptTexts.
Journal, the hashtag represents “critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators” who are “purging and propagandizing against classic texts…”
Reportedly, the premise is that kids should only have to read stories in the modern vernacular.
Furthermore, according to young-adult novelist Padma Venkatraman in the School Library Journal, in deep need of 86’ing is any material “in which racism, sexism, ableism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of hate are the norm.”