Media Specialist Advocates Education Reform

I found a posting of an article from School Library Journal for a conference that took place in January of this year that included School Media Specialists, librarians, business people, teachers, etc., from all over the world. The conference was EduCon 2.1 and was held in Pennsylvania and was referred to as, “both a conversation and a conference.” After reading about the conference I decided it is something I should definitely look into in the future. It is being held in the same place next year (hopefully it stays that way, PA is not that far away from Indiana!). There was a link in the article for the blog of the author and I found her blog to be quite encouraging. In her latest post she discussed a book Dr. Seuss was in the middle of when he died and how it had been finished by others and published about 10 years ago. The book was a parable about the politics of schools and making it clear that reform needs to take place, more creativity should be encouraged, how standardized testing doesn’t work, etc. I feel very strongly about these things and am glad to see someone in the public eye, at least the public consisting of media specialists who have known this for years, is making some noise about this.