Tag: Steven Tucker

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News
Date
January 8, 2025

Categorized
Education

Tagged
Aldous Huxley, BookTok, Brave New World (aversion to books), Bureau of Nooks and Crannies, Civitas, Gamification of libraries, Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science (Frontline 2023), Libraries (decline), Libraries (entertainment vs. education), Libraries and adults, Literacy (decline), Los Angeles Public Library System, Rock and Read, Steven Tucker, Storytime Yoga}

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} _{News
January 8, 2025

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Education}

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 ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 27, 2023

Categorized
Education, Mathematics, Politics

Tagged
James B. Meigs, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Steven Tucker, War on math}

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} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 27, 2023

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Education, Mathematics, Politics}

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 ›