[CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Student achievement study

[Megan Fuller]

So true!  I have students who stay just long enough to check out a full set of books, and then they leave with the textbooks never to be seen again.  Or how about foster kids who frequently change families or homes.  I do wish we could do some sort of notification process, even if it was just amongst ourselves.  But I am not sure of the ethics.
Megan Fuller Aptos Junior High http://www.aptosjr.pvusd.net/library/ Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun 


Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:35:04 -0800From: shatz at verizon.netTo: calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.eduSubject: Re: [CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Student achievement study








What about the students who move and change school more than once a year? I frequently add "new patrons" to my library database only to have the student checkout once and then move on. I've already had some for whom I've made a (laminated) library card and they moved on before using it even once! My sister-in-law (a 3rd grade teacher) had a student who told her on her first day in her class that she had been at her last school exactly 48 days. Why would a student even think to count or remember that unless moving was a very frequent occurrence? By the way, that was her first AND last day with my sister-in-law. L  That student was on to the next school the very next day. It seems to me that if a student moves that frequently, there ought to be a notification to the county or state and the family needs a social worker, or someone to help them find and maintain a permanent residence, at least for the remainder of the school year.
 

Joanne Ladewig  (A.K.A. "Library Lady")
Library Media Tech
Lawrence Elementary, GGUSD
Garden Grove, California
shatz at verizon.net
 
Comments are my own and may not represent the views of GGUSD
 




From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Lesley FarmerSent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:59 AMTo: calibk12 at listproc.sjsu.eduSubject: [CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Student achievement study
 
Children left behind before school startsFour major factors driving students' standardized test performance aren't even within schools' control, according to a new study. Simply by knowing the percentage of students who were often absent, raised by a single parent, not read to daily or watched five or more hours of TV daily, researchers were able to predict each state's results on a federal test with "impressive accuracy." The states that scored lowest tended to be those that had the highest percentages of children who met each of the four criteria.Educational Testing Service. (2007). The Family: America's Smallest School. Princeton, NJ: Author.www.ets.org/familyreport --Posted By Lesley Farmer to CSLA Research Update at 12/11/2007 10:55:00 AM 
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