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Article: How school librarians help kids achieve standards: the second Colorado study. (Professional Reading).
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- February 1, 2002
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Keith Curry Lance, Marcia Rodney and Christine Hamilton-Pennell.
Any TL reader unfamiliar with the 1992 "Colorado study" needs first to review Keith Lance's article in this issue. In one of the first state-wide studies sponsored by government, the Colorado Department of Education articulated a statistical link between the quality of school libraries and student achievement as measured on standardized tests; the study results also "ruled out the demographic and economic make-up of the school and community as well as the teacher-pupil ratio as potential factors explaining away these effects as something other than cause and effect."
In How school ...