Every day, classes and individual students visit our media center to check out books. The English teachers assign book reports, and students sometimes have difficulty choosing books they find engaging.
Among avid readers and hesitant readers alike, children are 90% more likely to read a book that they choose for themselves. When their choices are uninspiring, out of date, or irrelevant to their lives and interests, we need to update our library. Students from marginalized groups need to be represented authentically, both for their own self-esteem and, more broadly, for the sake of accurately portraying the diversity of life experiences in our world.
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Every day, classes and individual students visit our media center to check out books. The English teachers assign book reports, and students sometimes have difficulty choosing books they find engaging.
Among avid readers and hesitant readers alike, children are 90% more likely to read a book that they choose for themselves. When their choices are uninspiring, out of date, or irrelevant to their lives and interests, we need to update our library. Students from marginalized groups need to be represented authentically, both for their own self-esteem and, more broadly, for the sake of accurately portraying the diversity of life experiences in our world.