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Is the maker movement putting librarians at risk?

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“Stories, stories and more stories,” she told the school board last month. The Ray Marsh Elementary School directory lists Bombeck as “librarian” because she is state-certified to be one. But at least four Shawnee Mission grade schools have hired “innovation specialists” to run their libraries when fall classes open.

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Computer science courses still a rarity in California

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Students are almost 20 times as likely to take Advanced Placement English language or literature as they are to take AP computer science. All told, about 35,000 California public high school students were enrolled in courses dedicated to computer programming or computer science last school year, state figures show.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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Constructionism,” a term Seymour coined in the mid-’80s in connection with the academic work on LOGO, (the children’s computer programming language) and the education movement it spawned, became the basis for our work together at the MIT Media Lab (described in a book we published in 1991). Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic.

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New for This Year’s Back-to-School Shopping List: Face Masks

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At the Starkville Oktibbeha School District in Starkville, Miss., face masks are featured on the school supply lists for every grade at every school in the district, from Pre-K to high school. The school supply list of an elementary school in the Starkville Oktibbeha School District.

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What Will Kids Lose If PBS Gets Cut?

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Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS. They don’t have the people, the labs and the sustained support.” ‘A

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