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Exploring the correlation between school librarians and student reading scores
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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about the correlation between the presence of librarians in schools and student reading scores, emphasizing the importance of librarians for academic success and the need for data to drive instruction and funding decisions.
- DOE officials acknowledge the need to gather data on the correlation between librarians and literacy rates
- The importance of librarians in fostering a love for reading and writing is highlighted
- There's a call for more up-to-date data to inform funding and resource allocation decisions
Rita Joseph
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All based on funding.
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Quick question for learning.
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Is there as council member Ressler said, is there a correlation between schools who have librarians who don't have librarians?
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What do those reading scores look like?
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Do they tend to do better?
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What what are we looking prioritizing in terms of academics and having librarians in schools?
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I know my librarian, Ms.
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Pratt, was everything to our school building in writing and reading and making the love of books.
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And this is where you get your book talk from.
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Right?
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This is where you get all of your writing skills.
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And teachers can't do everything as much as we wanted to, but in that library magic was happening.
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And we got to continue to bring that magic across the city.
Cordelia Veve
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I think that Well I was just going to say I agree as a daughter of a librarian.
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However, as we mentioned before with Councilmember Ressler, we don't have the exact numbers of the schools with librarians.
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That's something that we can definitely work out.
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And I agree with you it makes a strong argument for us to take a look at how the literacy rates are aligned with librarians and then also what happens when a librarian is added to a school building.
Rita Joseph
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Yeah, that would be really amazing for our New York City kids because we want to get that data because as school leaders and school principals and a forever educator data drives our instruction, so I don't want to New York City public schools and that's something I complain about all the time, your data is never dating, never.
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So we want to make sure you have data so we can better be partners, right?
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So if you have data, can that's how funding come in place.
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We'll know where to plug in the gaps.
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If I don't know what you need, I can't fund you.