[PDF] Libraries Literacy And African American Youth eBook

Author : Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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This important book is a call to action for the library community to address the literacy and life outcome gaps impacting African American youth. It provides strategies that enable school and public librarians to transform their services, programs, and collections to be more responsive to the literacy strengths, experiences, and needs of African American youth. According to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP), only 18 percent of African American fourth graders and 17 percent of African American eighth graders performed at or above proficiency in reading in 2013. This book draws on research from various academic fields to explore the issues surrounding African American literacy and to aid in developing culturally responsive school and library programs with the goal of helping to close the achievement gap and improve the quality of life for African American youth. The book merges the work of its three authors along with the findings of other researchers and practitioners, highlighting exemplary programs, such as the award-winning Pearl Bailey Library Program, the Maker Jawn initiative at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocate writing institute in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, among others. Readers will understand how these culturally responsive programs put theory and research-based best practices into local action and see how to adapt them to meet the needs of their communities.

Author : Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2012
Category : African American youth
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A report summarizing the outcomes of the summit "Building a Bridge to Literacy for African American Male Youth : A Call to Action for the Library Community". The summit was held June 3-5, 2012 and was hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science and the North Carolina Central University School of Library and Information Sciences on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Author : Vivian L. Gadsden
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Education
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This volume expands on existing research in literacy and African-American education, and discusses a range of literacy issues confronting African-American and other youth in and out of school.

Author : Grace M. Jackson-Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1440870284

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Learn how to successfully develop diverse programming through reading books by African American authors and how to build strong partnerships among libraries, public organizations, and academic departments for multicultural outreach. Promoting African American Writers is written for librarians and others who are committed to developing programming that promotes reading of books by African American authors and books with multicultural themes. It is an outreach guide to be used by librarians, other educators, and community service advocates to develop educational programming that helps young people find their voices. It supports creativity and teaching of critical thinking skills to youth through literature. Grace Jackson-Brown is an academic librarian with more than 25 years of professional experience and a personal passion for developing educational cultural library programming. Over the years, her efforts forged mutual working bonds between institutions of higher learning with community organizations in the spirit of community engagement and for the goals of promoting diversity and reading to K-16 youth. In this book, she teaches readers how to duplicate her efforts and build fruitful partnerships of their own.

Author : Mike Selby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1538115549

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This book delves into how Freedom Libraries were at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only, and there was another virtually unheard of struggle— the right to read.

Author : Nichole Shabazz
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440859663

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Literacy during childhood and adolescence is a determiner of success later in life. African American and Latino youth often do not have adequate support when it comes to reading; this book shows how librarians can play a vital role in providing that support. * Illustrates effective, evidence-based strategies that can be used to improve librarians' professional practice * Includes informative, up-to-date, culturally relevant reading resource lists * Offers insight relating to the historical context and present condition of low literacy levels and reading reluctance among African American and Latino male youth

Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316075973

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After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.

Author : Lesley S. J. Farmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 031305889X

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The digital divide is a disturbing reality, and teens in our society increasingly fall into distinct categories of technology haves and have-nots, whether or not computers are available to them in the schools. This trend undermines the futures of our youth and jeopardizes the vitality of our society. Today's librarians are in a unique position to help bridge the gap. This guide helps librarians to identify tech-nots—technologically disadvantaged teens—in a community or school and to reach out and build information literacy in underserved teen populations. Farmer goes beyond recommending computers for every teen, and demonstrates how to overcome teen misperceptions and disinterest in computers. After examining the problem and the populations most affected, the author discusses how to build awareness and motivation, train staff, create space and time, build the collection, develop partnerships with other agencies and organizations, offer services, and overcome barriers with specific populations. Citing benchmark programs and services from around the country, Farmer offers a wealth of exciting new ways for libraries to connect with at-risk teens today. Grades 6-12.

Author : Denise E. Agosto, Ph.D.
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838990193

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This groundbreaking book is relevant to all librarians working with urban teens and looking for ways to reach out to them.

Author : Grace M. Jackson-Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Learn how to successfully develop diverse programming through reading books by African American authors and how to build strong partnerships among libraries, public organizations, and academic departments for multicultural outreach. Promoting African American Writers is written for librarians and others who are committed to developing programming that promotes reading of books by African American authors and books with multicultural themes. It is an outreach guide to be used by librarians, other educators, and community service advocates to develop educational programming that helps young people find their voices. It supports creativity and teaching of critical thinking skills to youth through literature. Grace Jackson-Brown is an academic librarian with more than 25 years of professional experience and a personal passion for developing educational cultural library programming. Over the years, her efforts forged mutual working bonds between institutions of higher learning with community organizations in the spirit of community engagement and for the goals of promoting diversity and reading to K-16 youth. In this book, she teaches readers how to duplicate her efforts and build fruitful partnerships of their own.