November 24, 2017 08:59 am PST
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UK authors and librarians' open letter to Education Secretary: stop closing school libraries!
I remember the day I realised that my daughter's London school had no library, the shock I felt, the sense that the cuts had gone beyond the bone, and that kids were being deprived of something critical -- and then the discovery that then-Education Minister Michael Gove was planning to spend a fortune distributing Bibles to schoolchildren with his name embossed in metal foil on the cover. (more…)
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