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A Library Without Books Is Like a Book Without Pages

There is a disturbing new phenomenon afoot – babies and toddlers are turning up at nurseries and schools not knowing what books are, or how to use them
Increasingly, library staff are told to ‘free up’ their bookshelves by discarding books, that one day libraries won’t have books but rather fun and games. Read More ›
An abstract computer generated fractal design. A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales.

The War on Math Becomes a Fight Over Textbooks

Florida, for example, rejected 54 math textbooks of 132 submitted by publishers on account of political content
Social justice messaging, right or wrong, is hardly going to help address the fact that American students lag behind most wealthy nations in math. Read More ›