School Libraries Work!

http://librarypublishing.scholastic.com/content/stores/LibraryStore/pages/images/slw_06.pdf

This article was puclished in a 2006 report that looks at 16 states that have been studied and results prove that, school library media centers can contribute to improved achievement. I am constantly looking for articles that support school libraries and provide data that show libraries can improve student achievement. A venn diagram is shown on the sixth page of this article. The diagram shows the relationship between the school, the physical library, and the library to yield student success.


National Center for Educational Statistics. U.S. Department of
Education. School Library Media Centers: Selected Results from the
Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002. Washington: DC January 2005.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005302.pdf
Provides an overview of the current state of school library media centers
that serve U.S. 10th-graders. This report presents data on school library
media centers from two sources, school librarians and students.
Specifically this report provides information on the following topics:
1) school library media centers: who has them, and their organization;
2) library resources, staffing, and circulation; and 3) students' selfreported
use and opinions of their school libraries. Findings for students
are presented by the following characteristics: sex, race/ethnicity,
socioeconomic status (SES), composite achievement test score in grade
10, student’s school sector, student’s school urbanicity, and student’s
school region.

Pascopella, Angela. Heart of the School: The School Library Is as
Valuable as Learning How To Read and Compute. But It’s a Tough Sell
for Administrators. District Administration, January 2005 v41 i1 p54(5).
http://www.districtadministration.com/page.cfm?p=960
This article is about the media center as the heart of the school, and the
key to improving learning.