Margie J. Klink Thomas

Tomas’ slim volume has a single purpose: to remind the profession that the non-college-bound student is important and that library media programs should be designed in a way to fit their needs and the expectations of various national reports. She concentrates on 21st Century Skills but also a wide variety of other major reports and some research studies including her own dissertaion to point to the grounding principles that should be taken into consideration in order to serve this segment of students. This read is a check on our policies and methods of reaching everyone so it is valuable in that sense. We wish she would have added an interpretation of the new AASL learning standards and their focus on every learner, whether academically inclined or not. A volume to check out the theory of working with the often ignored learner.… (altro)