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Download full textLance, Keith Curry; Hamilton-Pennell, Christine; Rodney, Marcia J. – 2000
This study is an assessment of the impact of Alaska school librarians on academic achievement in the state's public schools. It examines the direct relationship between such staffing and student performance and identifies selected activities of library media staff that affect test scores. Other conditions of library media center operation were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Skills, Information Technology
Wilford, Valerie J. – School Library Journal, 1993
Excerpts from testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources regarding the proposed Technology for Education Act highlights the need for strong school library media collections and programs in addition to the latest technology. Highlights include funding, expenditures, media centers and student achievement, librarians'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Hones, Kay Ellen – 1997
California is ranked 50 out of 50 states for providing school library services, with a ratio of student to public school media specialist of 6,361 to 1. The second worst state is Rhode Island, which has a ratio of 1,941 to 1. California's school libraries are declining at a time when technological developments and research in academic achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
