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Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma This week, we were disappointed to see wide circulation of the videos showing Ahmaud Arbery's and Sean Reed's shooting deaths. Educators have a responsibility to engage with students about this violence against Black men--and the white supremacist syste...

5 reasons your child should read graphic novels Let's put this one to rest: Graphic novels are real books.

Teaching in Solidarity This February, join educators from Philadelphia to Seattle for Black Lives Matter Week of Action.

'Merci Suárez' Wins Newbery, 'Hello Lighthouse,' the Caldecott; 'The Poet X' Takes Printz at 2019 Youth Media Awards The Poet Xwins the Printz and more, at the 2019 Youth Media Awards, announced today at the American Library Association's Midwinter conference in Seattle.

ASL Needs to Be Taught in School Like Other Languages American Sign Language is one of the must widely studied languages, but least accepted for graduation requirements.

Decolonizing Thanksgiving: A Toolkit for Combatting Racism in Schools Many thanks to the wonderful folks who contributed resources to this document — Carolyn Heckman, Eli Konwest, Nicole McNeil, Sarah Park…

Public library use in U.S. highest among Millennials About half of U.S. Millennials have visited a public library or bookmobile in the past year.