One From Florida, where they say As the number of middle school students in South Florida has boomed, school libraries have struggled to keep pace with children\’s need for reading materials.
Now middle schools are being told by a regional accrediting organization to increase their number of books by as much as 50 percent — at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars during lean budget times.
While some of the money would be used for popular novels, schools would also buy multicultural texts, books that support the high-stakes FCAT exam and resources that supplement textbook materials.
\”If we\’re not careful, we\’ll have a whole generation of people who want the quick snapshot of what happened and won\’t take the time to see the whole picture,\”
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