Let the record show: the EdWeek article does not "mirror" my work--it outright lifted it. With the exception of the race/ethnicity findings, for which they deserve due credit, almost everything else in the article is taken from Deb Kachel's and my April Kappan article--which EdWeek's spokesman now admits their writers had seen. That cinches it--my SLJ article reporting _original_ research about school librarian losses was cited in the Kappan article.

Conversations about this are ongoing.

Ultimate irony--all this concerning an article in which the value of citing sources properly is mentioned as something school librarians teach!

I strongly resent their stealing credit for the already-published lead finding of my year-long research--done with zero funding--and hope the school library community will use it as an object lesson.

Keith

On May 18, 2018 at 11:04 AM "Hainer, Gene" <hainer_g@cde.state.co.us> wrote:

An article in Education Week, “Schools See Steep Drop in Librarians, New Analysis Finds” highlights the job losses nationally in school libraries since 2000. If not blocked by a paywall from reading it, perhaps worth a comment at the end of the piece.

I did share this article with Keith Lance, as it mirrors work he and colleagues have published elsewhere on this topic.

Eugene Hainer
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