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Overview
Flexible scheduling and flexible access have been around for years, but students in many school systems have yet to reap their benefits. Full of fresh perspectives, this easy-to-follow guide gives you an overview of the concepts and then takes you step-by-step through the process of implementing them in your school to create lifelong learners, readers, and library users of your students. An excellent tool for clarifying to a school community the win-win situation created by these changes.
Synopsis
This holistic guide places the concepts of flexible scheduling and flexible access in the contexts of the entire school and the entire student. After defining the concepts and explaining their value, the book describes the process of implementation, including the preparations to be made and the changes to be expected. Ohlrich is a retired school librarian, a consultant, and a reading tutor.
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School Library Journal
This revision of the 1993 edition has been updated to include sections on Internet filtering, gay and lesbian literature, and challenges to books on witchcraft and the occult. Reichman addresses what to do to prevent or prepare for censorship problems, what to do in specific situations, and legal issues and relevant cases. The appendixes offer an interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights, a workbook for selection-policy writing, a sample selection policy, guidelines for student publications, dealing with questions about library resources, a selected list of concerned national organizations, summaries of related legal cases, and an annotated bibliography on the First Amendment and Intellectual Freedom. The author mentions an evening course for parents taught by an English teacher on "Books Our Children Read" noting: "It is imperative that public schools reach out-before controversy arises." This book, paired with Pat Scales's Teaching Banned Books (ALA, 2001), would certainly satisfy needs on this topic for librarians and media specialists, and is a great resource for teaching First Amendment rights in the classroom. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.