[CALIBK12] Accredited school library media programs in CA

[Alice Bresette]

Based on the first sentence of the article about school librarians, I would say it is because CA does not require the master's degree, only the credential (well, 2 credentials: teacher and librarian.) I've been lead to believe that a good part of the teacher librarians coming from SJSU (my school) did not bother getting the master's even though it is only 2 or 3 more classes after completing the credential work. Or it might have to do with NCATE accrediation which I don't know the requirements of.
 
As to only having 2 ALA accredited programs, at least we have 2, the majority of the states and places listed only have 1. It lists only 32 states, including DC (which I know isn't a state) so that means there are19 states that don't have a single one, which is one of the reasons why San Jose State gets students from Oregon, Nevada and other states and countries.
 
Just my thinking,
 
Alice Bresette, MLIS
Teacher-Librarian
Montera Middle School
Oakland, Ca

--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Thomas Kaun <tomkaun at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Thomas Kaun <tomkaun at gmail.com>
Subject: [CALIBK12] Accredited school library media programs in CA
To: "calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu" <calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 2:37 PM


I was surprised to see no California school library media programs listed in the AASL-approved list in the digital supplement to American Libraries.
<http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4696d0a9#/4696d0a9/26>
Only two California universities have ALA-accredited programs for the MLS, San Jose and UCLA. <http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4696d0a9#/4696d0a9/24>
What gives?
Tom

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