Brought to you by Gary Deane: The Globe and Mail reports on a new study that shows a direct correlation between investment in school libraries and improved standardized test scores.
There’s no quick fix [for poor standardized test scores], commentators are quick to point out. But what if there were? What if someone found a dependable method of raising test scores while enhancing the educational values that a standardized Q and A can’t measure?
Ken Haycock, a University of British Columbia researcher and former chairman of the Vancouver School Board, has identified that miracle solution in one of modern education’s most neglected outposts: the school library. No, it’s not sexy or particularly cutting-edge — the opposite, if anything, which may be why the library’s backers can’t get the attention of people fixated on education’s next big thing.
The full report (in .pdf) is available here.
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