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Librarians and Reading
A Podcast Studio, 18,000 New Books — How 3 School Librarians Won National Award
The honorees were among 10 recognized by the American Library Association for transforming their libraries and boosting student engagement.
In a survey of more than 1,200 K-3 educators in the fall of 2025, researchers at the Fordham Institute, an education reform nonprofit, found 30% of teachers don’t “favor phonics,” a major pillar in the science of reading that teaches students how letters represent sounds and how to blend those sounds together. The number of teachers “less informed and committed” to the science of reading is even greater in high poverty schools, according to the From the Teacher’s Desk: A Science of Reading Progress Report.
Anatomy of a ‘Learning Recession’: Academic Losses Began in 2013, Report Finds
Latest release from Education Scorecard argues that the spread of social media — and a rollback of accountability — hurt students long before COVID.
Florida removed more library books than any state last year
Florida’s 2023 law, HB 1069, created a legal process for removing books, including a requirement that they be pulled while schools respond to challenges filed by parents or citizens. The list compiled by PEN includes books permanently removed from schools, removed pending investigation, and restrictions based on grade level or requiring parental permission.
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NotebookLM from Google DeepMind is a game changer. Upload all your textbooks and PDFs for one course, ask questions across all of them. Anna’s Archive for free textbooks is a lifesaver. Perplexity replacing 90% of academic Google searches with citations. Zotero saving 20+ hours a semester on bibliographies. Wolfram Alpha showing step-by-step solutions. The students with the biggest head start aren’t smarter. They just found the right tools earlier. Thanks for sharing. Saving this. Will share with every student I know. Really helpful.
Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005
10 WEBSITES EVERY STUDENT SHOULD USE BEFORE GRADUATION.
Bookmark every single one. Your university will never tell you about most of these.
1. http://notebooklm.google
Upload every textbook, lecture, and PDF for a course. Ask questions across all of them. Built by Google DeepMind.
2. http://sci-bot.ru
Search scientific research fast. Ask any question and get answers with links to relevant papers in seconds.
3. http://annas-archive.gl
The world’s largest open library. Almost any textbook your professor assigned is on here for free.
4. http://perplexity.ai
Research assistant that cites every source. Replaces 90% of Google searches for academic work.
5. http://zotero.org
Free reference manager that builds your bibliography automatically. Saves 20+ hours per semester.
6. http://wolframalpha.com
Solves math, physics, chemistry, and engineering problems step by step. Shows the full working.
7. http://handshake.com
The job platform built specifically for students. 1.4 million employers actively recruiting on it right now.
8. http://fastweb.com
Matches you to scholarships you actually qualify for. Over $3.4 billion awarded to students every year.
9. http://coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
Free Barbara Oakley course taken by 4 million people. The science of how to actually study and remember.
10. http://linkedin.com/learning
Free with most university logins. 16,000+ courses on everything from Excel to AI engineering.
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