New York City school librarians are the latest casualties in the leaning of American education.
Here is my short list of wrong reasons for this national tend.
- Learning to pass tests preempt the learning of learner-directed search competencies
- The assumption that online sources require less expert research assistance
- Libraries in communities will become less relevant, so students should get used to that
- The potential value of librarian in a digital age is completely underrated by educators
- Memorization is positioned as a greater life skill than problem-based research
It raises the question of what communities can do to help students whose librarians have been eliminated. Time to get resource and strategy creative.
