School Reform and the School Library Media Specialist (Principles and Practice Series)

This third entry in the Principles and Practice series, begun by Barbara K. Stripling for Libraries Unlimited, enables school library media specialists to clarify and expand their role in the national school reform movement. Chapters offer a description of the school reform initiative and implications for practice and a discussion of how to implement in your practice. Readers will be able to: identify current school reform efforts in the United States; understand the role of the school library media specialist in school reform; connect current school reform efforts to the national guidelines for school media programs suggested in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning (ALA, AECT 1998); and adapt strategies for participating in school reform to their educational settings by acting as change agents. Grades K-12.