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Feds

Do you see the problems when the feds keep trying to infuse themselves into education. Education is a priority so politicians keep talking education and people ask politicians what they are going to do...

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Because you don't live in a

Because you don't live in a purely local world? You can't apply one areas ideals when students could end up anywhere else in the country or abroad. You can help local like with shopping but you can't...

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And I like this

'“It is rare in a working environment,” he’s argued, “that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday but before that I need a compelling account of your childhood.’ ”Also, I live in...

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Local

>>Bumper stickers on your cars say "Buy Local" Why are we not local for our schools?Of course the ideas in our schools need to be more than local. And the market for teachers can be a national...

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It's about READING!

Call me old fashioned, but I think the idea is to get kids to ENJOY reading by 4th grade. If they don't, then they'll certainly never read those pesky (and, yes, probably BORING) "...historical...

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Maps boring? Pictures of

Maps boring? Pictures of dinosaurs and photos of national parks boring? Getting your kids to help out with baking boring? Looking at all the place names on timetables and seeing where they are boring?...

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The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool

But, in the meantime, the fear over AI is leading to some crazy and sometimes unfortunate outcomes. Benji Smith, who created what appears to be an...

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Simon & Schuster purchased by private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion | AP...

Simon & Schuster has been sold to the private equity firm KKR, months after a federal judge blocked its purchase by rival publisher Penguin Random House...

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John Green book pulled from young adult shelf at Hamilton East library

Author John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" has joined hundreds of books that are no longer on Hamilton East Public Library's teen shelves thanks to...

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White House holds first-ever summit on the ransomware crisis plaguing the...

A pilot proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel %u2014 yet to be voted on by the agency %u2014 would make $200 million available over...

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How librarians, kids and the country are paying for the ongoing rancor : NPR

It’s been a year since the start of what one librarian here calls "The Troubles." That's when once-boring meetings of the Livingston Parish Library Board of...

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Texas Revamps Houston Schools, Closing Libraries and Angering Parents

Texas Revamps Houston Schools, Closing Libraries and Angering Parents As part of a state takeover plan, libraries in underperforming schools are becoming spaces for disruptive students...

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Book battles are raging nationwide. A WA library could be nation’s first to...

Book battles are raging across the nation, but none have carried the kind of stakes as the one here in Dayton, a one-stoplight farming community in...

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The Hip Hop Historians Who Are Racing to Preserve Its Story

The Hip Hop Historians Who Are Racing to Preserve Its Story From vinyl to photos, blogs to music streams, chronicling 50 years of culture involves reckoning...

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A Warning From the Unpublished Preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm

His Preface, “The Freedom of the Press” was omitted from the first edition of the book, then disappeared, and was not rediscovered until 1971. From it,...

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Internet Archive Responds to Recording Industry Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete...

Statement from Brewster Kahle, digital librarian of the Internet Archive:“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound...

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In St. Joseph, local GOP pressured lawmakers to block approval of gay library...

The Buchanan County party leader threatened not to allow city council members to run as Republicans if they approved the appointment of a gay pastor to...

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Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI

My Books Were Used to Train AI I have said in one of my few forays into nonfiction (On Writing) that you can’t learn to write...

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Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age – Without maintenance, most digital...

Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our...

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Libraries with individually owned bookshelves spreading in Japan – The Japan...

Moves are spreading in Japan to set up private libraries where each bookshelf is owned by individuals who display books on their hobbies or those that...

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