The discussions in the spring set of free, one-hour professional development programs will tackle serving striving readers, information inequity, and news literacy.

Educators offer resources, information to protect staff and students from illness and xenophobic attacks, as CDC recommends schools create an online option in the event of closures.

These websites, books, and articles will help students dig deeper into the history of women’s suffrage.

A curricular guide for Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You  by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, geared for educators and students, ages 12 and up.

Strategies to help students determine determine whether a video has been altered include analyzing what motivates people to create fakes in the first place. 

Legislators in Tennessee want to create a parental oversight board to decide what children can and cannot access at their local public library; Jeff Kinney to hit the road for Rowley; and grants and professional opportunities in this edition of News Bites.

Library media specialists and library advocates are concerned about the loss of jobs and impact on the nearly 50,000 students in the nation's capital.

More U.S. librarians are using this interactive programming model, in which human "books" speak with patrons about their life experiences.

For the fourth year in a row, the proposed federal budget calls for defunding IMLS and makes cuts to education spending as well. Library advocates and educators are being asked once again to speak out to protect the funding.