#1 skill teens need for college
Take a quick guess…. the ability to handle complex reading. According to an article today on CNN, the ACT reports this is the skill we need to be focusing upon in our high schools. Why am I posting about this when the study was released earlier? Because it is one of the top 3 stories that flashes across my news board today. This is the area where JoeBlow or General Public reads news highlights. Here is an opportunity for us to be actively responding and doing something about it. Where is the insitutional response from school librarians about complex reading supported within the library program? If we want to be a player, we have to respond quickly and be visible. I was very impressed with this educational think tank response, Eighmey’s Think Tank .
Here are the links to earlier press releases about this study:
CNN March 1; from Boston.com; Indiana Gazette; NIE Newspapers in Education; and the IRA International Reading Association info. When I searched the ACT 63 page report, there was not one occurrence of the word “library.”
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