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Handel in the bland
I have to say I thought Jessica Duchen's article on Handel in the Independent, with it's comment 'Had he lived in the 1980s, his chief rival could have been Andrew Lloyd Webber', was a very silly piece of writing. I blame the Independent more than Jessica. It is common knowledge that for an article on classical music to appear in the Independent or Guardian these days it has to meet one of three criteria. It has to plug a new CD, it has to plug a live performance, or it has to put the knife into someone's reputation. I guess we have Norman Lebrecht to thank for that.
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8 comments:
- Pliable said...
I must confess that when I uploaded this post I had not read the comments attached to the Independent article.
Thank you to a reader for pointing them out. Entertaining if not illuminating reading ....
- 4:54 pm
- Unknown said...
I'm sure Norman would be delighted to be credited with such all-pervasive power, Pliable!
I must admit I underestimated the degree of sense of humour failure that might greet what was always going to be a deliberately provocative, tongue-in-cheek article. It was meant to goad, and to challenge a sacred cow - not to produce classical road rage.
It has, however, got Handel a lot of extra attention, so I hope that is OK with you guys.
- 5:08 pm
- Pliable said...
Jessica, I think it was more judgement failure by the writer than sense of humour failure by the reader.
As I said before, I found it a very silly piece - tongue-in-cheek or not.
Hiring Max Clifford to represent Handel would also get him a lot of attention. Perhaps the Independent will be up for that as well?
- 5:39 pm
- Pliable said...
Just to underline the point I make in this post.
Today's 'film & music' section in the Guardian has just one article on classical music in sixteen pages. It is a typically sycophantic interview with Murray Perahia aimed at flogging seats for his Barbican concert on March 15 -
- 6:18 pm
- Jessica said...
Why not support your point with some sensible arguments *in favour* of Handel, Pliable? I've already told you that the article was deliberately tongue-in-cheek, but you don't seem to want to accept that. In which case, some sensible discourse would be the least you could do, don't you think?
As for Max Clifford - oh, if only!
- 10:24 pm
- Henry Holland said...
Sorry, Pliable, I'm with Ms. Duchen here. Handel is simply one of those composers --Haydn being another prime example or closer to our time, Shostakovich-- whose music we're supposed to *all* acknowledge is amazing, a pipeline to God etc.
The discussions of the quality of the music are ALWAYS framed as "Well, *of course*, Haydn is a great composer, DUH", and to dissent and say, like I do, that *for me* Haydn's music is utterly predictable production-line music, churned out with a mania that grates on my nerves something fierce, is to be thought of as not to be taken seriously.
A performance of Handel's Xerxes that I was bribed to go to is by light years the most appalling, excruciating experience I've ever had in a concert hall or opera house. I was stuck --my friend had the car keys-- and I sat there, listening to that ghastly endless parade of florid arias and I wanted to scream.
The modern equivalent is Shostakovich. As Boulez memorably said "It's like wine, Shostakovich is third press Mahler". I can't tell you how many times I've said something similar and you know what the response ALWAYS is? "But....but....he was persecuted by Stalin!". Never a defense of the actual music, but of the composer's circumstances.
Ms. Duchen's (me too) beloved Korngold gets the opposite treatment: he's sneered at, barely taken seriously at all because of his film music connection, yet dare suggest that he was a terrific composer and eyes start rolling. Considering that I wouldn't trade every single note that Handel, Haydn and Shostakovich wrote for the last five minutes of Die Tote Stadt, I'm all for Handel being taken down a peg or three.
- 12:44 am
- Philip Amos said...
You've give me reason to rethink my position on this since I wrote my earlier comment attached to the Elgar post. I think I construed the article as a bit of impishness and just accepted it as such, no matter how great my disagreement, precisely because I long ago ceased to expect articles of substance on the arts in newspapers, and resigning myself to that is not a good thing. I must say also that looking back on this brouhaha, to which I contributed, it was productive of absolutely nothing at all. Looking back over the comments on JDCM, all I learned from it was that a few people seem to share my affection for Handel's Dixit Dominus, and that was no great surprise. I suppose what one might say for it is that it reminded us of just what a wonder Handel was - it certainly made me reflect on that.
- 2:45 am
- Pliable said...
Jessica, I have no intention of putting forward 'arguments *in favour* of Handel'. His music is more than capable of doing that.
I also loathe the whole current mentality, pioneered by BBC Radio 3, of encouraging the unqualified to pass judgement on the towering giants of classical music.
I now realise that it was a mistake to become involved in this debate. All it has done is confirm one important law of blogging that I stupidly overlooked. That law says that if you write about the silly you simply provide a platform for the debate to get sillier.
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The Richmond Black Widows made WFA history with a Cinderella finish in 2016 as the first team in an inaugural season to advance to the National Conference Championship game. In that season, four of their beginner football team members were chosen as All-American players in the WFA. In the 2017 season, six of their team members received All-American status.
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Martha S. Grayson, MD. received her MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed the Residency Program in Social Internal Medicine at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. She completed the Michigan State University Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship Program in 1992-1993 and the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Fellowship for Women at MCP in 2002. Dr. Grayson served as the Chief of General Internal Medicine at two hospitals, Metropolitan Hospital and Saint Vincent's Hospital – both in Manhattan. She was the first Associate Dean for Primary Care at New York Medical College and later went on to become Vice Dean for Medical Education. She was the PI for several grants which focused on training medical students, residents and community physicians in the fundamental competencies needed for the practice of high quality primary care.
Dr. Grayson returned to Einstein in December, 2009, and serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and as Professor of Clinical Medicine . Since her arrival Dr. Grayson has introduced some significant changes in both the structure of the Office of Medical Education and the delivery of the medical education curriculum. Chief among these accomplishments have been the organization of the Medical Education Council (MEC), the introduction of the Einstein Medical Education Database (eMED) learning management system, the creation of the scholarly concentration program (SOAR), oversight of the development and implementation of a new set of educational competencies, and chair of the team designing the new Education Center.
Dr. Grayson's research interests include analyzing factors which determine medical student career choice, and on the assessment of educational programs.
Thorndyke L, Grayson M, Gusic M. Navigating the Transition to a New Leadership Position: Moving on and Moving up. MedEdPORTAL; 2014. Available from: www.mededportal.org/publication/9707
MS Grayson, DA Newton and LF Thompson: Payback Time: The Association of Debt and Income with Medical Student Career Choice, Medical Education, October, 2012, 46, 983–991
MS Grayson, DA Newton, PA Patrick and L Smith: Impact of AOA Status and Perceived Lifestyle on Career Choices of Medical School Graduates, JGIM, Vol. 26(12), 2011, 1434-1440
DA Newton, MS Grayson, and LF Thompson: Money, Lifestyle or Values? Why Medical Students Choose Subspecialty vs. General Pediatric Careers, Clinical Pediatrics, 2010, 49(2), 116-122
DA Brand, PA Patrick, and MS Grayson: Mid-Career Research Training for the Generalist Physician: Case Study of a Balancing Act, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, Vol. 20(2), 2008, 180-185
DA Newton, MS Grayson, and LF Thompson: The Variable Influence of Lifestyle and Income on Medical Students' Career Specialty Choices: Data from Two US Medical Schools, 1998-2004, Academic Medicine, Vol. 80, No. 9, September, 2005, 809-814
LL Chang, MS Grayson, PA Patrick: Incorporating the Fourth Year of MedicalS chool into an Internal Medicine Residency: Effect of an Accelerated Program on Performance Outcomes and Career Choice, Teaching and Learning in Medicine; Vol. 16(4), Fall, 2004, 361-364
DA Newton and MS Grayson: Trends in Career Choice by US Medical School Graduates, JAMA, Vol 290 (9), September 3, 2003, p. 1179-1182
MS Grayson, M Klein, KB Franke: The Impact of a First-year Primary Care Experience on Residency Choice, JGIM, Vol. 16, December 2001, p 860-3
M Klein, MS Grayson and RH Bernstein: Partnership between a Medical School and a Managed care Organization to Financially Support Community-Based Teaching, Academic Medicine, Vol. 75, No. 5, May 2000, 531
MS Grayson, DA Newton, M Klein and T Irons: Promoting Institutional Change to Encourage Primary Care: Experiences at New York Medical Collegeand East Carolina University School of Medicine, Academic Medicine, Vol. 74, No. 1, Supplement, January 1999, S9-S15
PA Carney, ME Bar-on, MS Grayson, et al: The Impact of Early Clinical Training in Medical Education: Multi-Institutional Assessment, Academic Medicine, Vol. 74, No. 1 Supplement, January 1999, S59-S66
MS Grayson, M. Klein, JJ Lugo, P Visintainer: Perceived Benefits and Costs to Community-Based Physicians for Teaching Primary Care to First and Second Year Medical Students, JGIM Vol. 13, No. 7, July 1998, 485-488
BD Newman, E. Moshman, KS Edwards, MS Grayson, EK Kachur and M. Klein: A Strategy for a Permanente/Academic Partnership in a Small Medical Group, The Permanente Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1998, 55-57
DC Lynch, DA Newton, MS Grayson, TW Whitley: The Influence of Medical School on Opinions About Primary Care Practice, Academic Medicine, April 1998, 433-435
DA Newton, MS Grayson and TW Whitley: What Predicts Medical Student Career Choice?, JGIM, Vol. 13, No. 3, March 1998, 200-203
MS Grayson, DA Newton and TW Whitley: First Year Medical Students Knowledge of and Attitudes towards Primary Care Careers, Family Medicine, Vol. 28, No.S. May1996, 337-342
MS Grayson, EC Rackow and KP Adler: Combining the Fourth Year of MedicalSchoolwith the First Year of an Internal Medicine Residency, Academic Medicine, 69 (5), May 1994, 423-424
KL Gupta, SR Gambert, MS Grayson, JJ Lugo and AM Sozzo: Comparing the Teaching of Physical Diagnosis in a Primary Care Setting and a Hospital Setting, Academic Medicine, 68 (4), April 1993, 311
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Less than a quarter of internal medicine residents plan to stay in primary care, reports a US News & World Report article quoting Martha Grayson, M.D. With the primary care physician shortage expected to worsen, Dr. Grayson suggests interest in the field might be boosted by debt forgiveness and reducing work hours. Dr. Grayson is senior associate dean of medical education at Einstein.
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U.S. News & World Report features research by Martha Grayson, M.D., that found debt deters medical students from entering primary care. Dr. Grayson notes that, although it is well-known that medical students take on high debt, not much research has examined how students respond to the pressure. Dr. Grayson is senior associate dean of medical education at Einstein.


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Maldives, 2013-10-15 — /travelprnews.com/ — Air Asia X has started its operation to Maldives with its A330-300 aircraft landing at Ibrahim Nasir International Airport on 28th September 2013. AirAsia X is the affiliated long haul unit of the leading and the largest low-cost carrier, AirAsia.
The airline will operate 4 weekly flights on Tuesday and Friday on Kuala Lumpur – Male – Colombo – Kuala Lumpur route and Thursday and Sunday on Kuala Lumpur – Colombo – Male – Kuala Lumpur route. The airline will be using its 377 seater – 12 in business class and 365 in economy.
The official inauguration was held yesterday at Ibrahim Nasir International Airport, greeted with the customary water salutation. The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Defence and National Security, Colonel (Rtd) Mohamed Nazim, Minister of Tourism, Arts & Culture, Mr. Ahmed Adeeb Abdul Gafoor, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China, His Excellency Yu Hongyao, Minister of State for Tourism, Arts & Culture, Mr. Ahmed Shameem, Managing Director of Maldives Airports Company, Mr. Bandhu Ibrahim Saleem, CEO of AirAsia X, Mr. Azran Osman-Rani, and other government officials.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Mr. Bandhu Ibrahim Saleem thanked AirAsia team for their effort in adding Maldives to the airline's vast network, connecting Maldives to Malaysia and beyond.
In the speech given by the Tourism Minister Adeeb highlighted on Maldives' target to reach 1 million tourists within the year and how airlines play the key role in increasing the numbers to a destination. "Airlines are the most important component for any tourist destination. We welcome more airlines to fly into Maldives bring in more traffic which at the end will help to fill up the bed capacity we have and give confident to build more beds in the coming years" Minister stated.
In the remarks given by the Minister of Defence and National Security, Colonel (Rtd) Mohamed Nazim said that initiating the AirAsia service between Malaysia and Maldives opens vital links between two countries, opens various opportunities in further enhancement in travel and commerce sector.
CEO of AirAsia X, Mr. Azran Osman-Rani mentioned that it was thrilling to be able to start operation to Maldives after the initial discussion held 5 years back. Maldives is an inspirational destination and for many, coming to Maldives is a dream come true. "AirAsia currently flies direct to 10 cities in China, also connects Korea, Australia, Japan and all South East Asian countries, which gives us confident to access many from these markets to the sunny side of life" he stated.
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The School of Humanities and Sciences is creating a pool of qualified part-time lecturers in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department for possible openings in the summer, fall, and spring of academic year 2019-2020, in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Latin, ESL, Linguistics, Hebrew, and Spanish.Position/Job Qualifications
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Drug dealers who were exposed when disgruntled residents put up fake street signs have been jailed.
The east London residents commissioned artists to create "drug dealers only" parking spaces and "crack pickup" points last September, sparking a police investigation.
A total of 23 men have now been prosecuted over the drugs trade.
Three were sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday and four on Friday.
Judge Gerard Pounder told the court on Friday: "All this came to light because of residents in Tower Hamlets and Hackney.
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Jonathan Shepherd, from the CPS, said on Monday: "Dealing drugs such as heroin can have devastating consequences for vulnerable people and communities.
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Hailing from the glamorous streets of Hollywood, CA, Clownvis Presley has accomplished more in the past few years than most entertainers achieve in their whole careers. In addition to hosting his own monthly variety show and MCing countless events, his charisma, quick wit, and superior singing voice have earned him opening slots on quite a few high-profile shows. He has toured extensively and performed with superstars such as Little Richard, Neil Hamburger, the Dresden Dolls, Jewel, and The Goo Goo Dolls to name a few -- all of which has earned him the title "King of Clowns." Thanks to a controversial appearance on NBC's America's Got Talent, Clownvis is now familiar to millions of people around the planet. His phenomenal audition must be seen to be believed (maybe even more than once). Clownvis also made a hilarious appearance on BET's Judge Karen's Court in 2010. The King of Clowns is a staple of the current Los Angeles comedy and music scene. Much more than just a party clown, this showman does it all. In addition to hosting music awards, festivals, fundraisers and burlesque revues, Clownvis is also a good guy, donating his talents to charity events and non-profit organizations.
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Seventh Grader Plans to Build 17-Inch Windows Tablet
James Hardman has a dream. A tech fanatic, he thinks tablets are amazing, but the ones currently on sale simply aren't big enough for him. While most large tablet designs, like the iPad, have displays that max out at about 10 inches, Hardman wants to go larger — all the way to a 17-inch screen.
"I personally love bigger screens," Hardman told Mashable, "And I know other people did, too. I looked everywhere and nobody had anything even close."
So Hardman did what any tech-savvy person with a gadget dream would do: He set out to build one. Turning to Kickstarter, Hardman posted his plan to build a 17-inch Windows tablet, showing it could be done by creating a crude prototype with an old monitor, gutted and jury-rigged to run Windows Vista (you can see photos of his prototype in the gallery below). He set the modest goal of $50,000 in funding.
Did we mention that James Hardman is 12 years old?
Yes, the plan to build a world's largest tablet comes from a kid who can't even drive. The California boy talks about the project with a surprising level of technical know-how, however, and he clearly has a vision for what a 17-inch tablet should be.
First, he sees his potential creation as much more than a consumption device. Hardman wants to use his megatablet as a photo and video editor, so he chose to build it with hardware and software typically reserved for PCs. He's targeted Intel's coming next-generation Ivy Bridge processors for mobile as his hardware of choice, and Windows as the operating system, as opposed to the more popular tablet OS, Android.
"My tablet's going to be way too powerful to run Android," he says. "The new Ivy Bridge processors for mobile devices are meant to be way more power efficient than the previous ones. I also looked at all the current offerings in the 17-inch laptop market now and took that into consideration."
Hardman also wants his tablet to be "fully upgradeable," meaning users will be able to swap out everything from the RAM to the display itself whenever they wish. He sees his device creating a "premium tablet" market aimed at tinkerers like him who want a touch-screen device they can customize over time. And to make it gigantic.
Even though Hardman's tablet will have a huge screen, he says it'll weigh in at about 3 pounds with a maximum seven-hour battery life. He emphasizes that the tablet will be made in America, which he says will add about $45 to the cost of making each unit. As for the final price, he expects it to be between $1,100 and $1,500. If he achieves his funding goal, he hopes the first units will be available in November.
That might not happen, though, since his Kickstarter project has just seven days left and has only received about one-tenth of the funding it needs. As for his parents, Hardman says his parents have been "very supportive" and that they've given him a lot of help, including contributing about $1,000.
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$400 Million – by Peter MacPherson
by Pether MacPherson
The second area where the poverty in DCPS is profound is in technology. The limited presence of computers in many schools is quite profound. And even schools that have gone through modernization often received no computers or the ones they did are reaching the end of their useful life. At Maury Elementary School, for example, no computers were provided as part of its renovation. The school has two carts of laptops bought by the PTA. At Watkins, the computer lab is full of eight-year-old eMacs bought by the PTA. They are no longer supported and once they fail have to be removed. And no replacement is available. DCPS needs 15,000 computers, at a cost of $15 million.
Finally, the music programs are in very poor shape as a result of being starved for resources. I was in a District elementary school music class recently and there weren't nearly enough instruments to go around. One child ended up using an empty copy paper box as a drum. DCPS needs $1 million in new instruments. It needs 60 new upright and 20 new grand pianos as well as new music software and access to online music libraries. The need in this area is around $2.8 million.
The hole that DCPS is in prevents making much improvement simply using the operating budget. All schools would benefit from this investment and it would allow the city to bring some equity to resources all schools should have. And there are programs stakeholders want–like International Baccalaureate–that require properly staff and resourced libraries. And none are present in the schools currently angling for this certification. In addition there is no currently mechanism to buy books for modernized schools. Right now we're looking at the prospect of Dunbar High School and the new Ward Five middle school opening with no new books.
We now have a special opportunity to fix these problems and, in the process, greatly improve DCPS. A vibrant DCPS is key to the future of this city. The need here is between $35 million and $40 million. I've written the mayor and council and asked them to divert some of the surplus funds to deal with these issues. I hope you'll do the same. The appropriate email addresses are listed below.
Peter MacPherson
pmacpher at aol.com
DC Public Schools Library Task Force Report Released
CHPSPO members started raising awareness about the need for DCPS to strengthen its approach to school libraries in early 2012. As a result of these efforts, DCPS established a School Library Task Force.
DCPS released the Task Force report that includes a series of recommendations on staffing, programming, collection and resource development, district-level support, facilities, and the creation of a Culture of Literacy Campaign. Read the School Library Task Force report for more details.
CHPSPO Meeting Notes – November 20, 2012
Capitol Hill Public Schools Parent Organization
Maury Elementary School Library – 1250 Constitution Ave., NE
November 20, 2012, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
1) DCPS School Closing Announcement (Cathy Reilly, SHAPPE, and Daniel del Pielago (Empower DC)
- Dec 5 – Wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 Community Discussion on DCPS Proposed Consolidation and Reorganization, 6 – 8 p.m @ Brightwood Education Campus (1300 Nicholson St, NW)
- What does this mean to us (Ward 6 families) in the future?
- Engage DCPS online – post ideas on how to save money here.
- Need to formulate collective vision of how to fix the schools
- When Hine and Eliot merged 5 years ago, combined population was +600, now Hine is ~300 total. Consolidation has proven to show decreased enrollment.
- No plan in place to enrich combined campuses programmatically.
- Valuable to attend a neighborhood school. Publicly funded, but privately run schools don't fit into a neighborhood system.
- Teachers union not a strong voice; engage other unions?
- What impact has Basis had on the DCPS middle schools? (Latin, Two Rivers)
- Review data à http://dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/COMMUNITY/CR/DCPS-School-Data-Snapshot-November-19-2012.pdf
- 40% of families affected in this closing were affected in 2008 closing
- A lot of other places DCPS could save $ in lieu of closing schools – Teacher bonus, IMPACT evaluation, vendor relations (food services)
- What does an all charter system look like?
- Two pronged approach: Retention of families + Market to new families
2) Class of 20xx (Drew Golin, Maury parent)
- Recruit captains/teams at each school by grade (public, private, charter – raising a community)
- Captains/Teams at each school by grade (public, private, charter – raising a community)
- Own listservs for the class
- Meetings
- Start getting involved in the HS – raise funds for music program, donate to bake sales, attend events
- 'experts' to think about
- Hill Rag letter
- 3rd grade playgroup: 1/3 of parents whose children had been to multiple schools.
- Summer concert series with Eastern HS band.
- Attend Eastern HS games http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/eastern-ramblers-(washington,dc)/basketball/schedule.htm
3) Title IX and sports for girls in DC (Valarie Hogan, National Women's Law Center fellow)
- Circulate link to flyer and survey – engage MS and High Schools, coaches, parents, teachers – elem are covered but small.
- Meeting Dec 3, 6:30PM to give more info, discuss next steps @ Crolin Morrings, 1101 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
- Center has been in talks w/ DCPS for years and possibly ready to file a complaint. Another complaint has been filed – focus is on opportunities, not on spending.
- Charters have not been tracked, in process of understand DC's responsibility around charters and equity vis a vis sports
4) Learn about IB Middle Years @ Atlas and Living Room Chats update
- Next IB education night – Jan 22 at Westminster Presbyterian in SW , 6PM
- Stuart Hobson has first Tuesday visits
- Dec 2 Moth school information night 2-5PM. CHPSPO will attend.
5) DCPS Library Task Force update
- Continues to meet: recommendations out by mid-December, a lot of support for staffing librarians at all schools, collection development
- Where are books going w/ all closures? (Almost of all schools being closed don't have librarians)…
Next CHPSPO Meeting: December 18, 2012
Upcoming Events:
- December 2: Girls on the Run 5K – 2PM @ Anacostia Park. Cheer on Capitol Hill Montessori at Logan, J.O. Wilson, Ludlow-Taylor, Maury, and Tyler or register to run in the 5K
- December 2: Hill School Information Night– 2-5PM @ Capitol Hill Day School
- December 3: Title IX Sports for Girls Next Steps – 6:30PM @ Crolin Morrings, 1101 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
- December 5: Wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 Community Discussion on DCPS Proposed Consolidation and Reorganization, 6 – 8 p.m.
- January 22: Next IB education night – at Westminster Presbyterian in SW , 6PM
School Closures and Libraries – by Peter Macpherson
Dear Council Members:
Study after study–sixty since 1965–have shown that presence of libraries and credentialed librarians have a dramatic impact on literacy development and overall student performance. A study done in Colorado and released this year examined staffing levels in school libraries in 2005 and then revisited those same sites in 2011. Those schools that had been able to retain a librarian during those years or gained one had significantly better reading scores. Those that had a librarian but then lost the position saw their scores deteriorate. And those that did not have librarians at all saw poorer reading achievement. And recent studies in states such as Pennsylvania produced similar results. In the 2010-11 academic year the Hampton, South Carolina School District was a beneficiary of a grant from the United States Department of Education designed to use libraries for literacy development and improve reading skills. The grant funneled money into the district for library collection development, technology acquisition and staffing with certified library media specialist. A team of evaluators selected by the education department selected to review the results of the grant reported, "Students in the third, fifth and seventh grades in Hampton School District I had a significant increase in reading MAP scores from the fall of 2010 to the spring of 2011."
And the most successful urban school district in the United States, according to the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress, have comprehensive school library programs. That's the case in Austin, Texas, Hillsborough County, Florida, Jefferson County, Kentucky and Charlotte, North Carolina. In Anchorage, Alaska, a school district of comparable size to DCPS that is racially, ethnically and socieo-econominally diverse , has a librarian in all of its schools. Though not a perfect school district it has better reading scores than ours.
In the five years of mayoral control of the schools DCPS has had the ability to ability to have properly-resourced, well-staffed libraries and has consistently chosen a different path. The last superintendent, Clifford Janey, instituted a requirement that all schools have a librarian. Upon arrival Michelle Rhee kept the requirement in place but gave virtually any school that asked an exemption. The cuts the chancellor made in school librarian positions back in the spring accelerated a decline in the school libraries underway since 2007. There has been no direct, consistent funding for school library materials since that time. And though DCPS has a line in its budget for library and media services, in the past two fiscal years most of the money has been spent on things completely unrelated to libraries. This information came to light as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request. It paid for such things as building maintenance, HVAC repairs, a strategic plan for the DCPS Office of Community and Family Engagement done by a San Francisco-based consultant. The chancellor and her team have made repeated representations to the council that they were asking for money that would be spent on school libraries. But there was never any plan in place for how to spend that money. Instead it became or was intended to be a piggybank available for robbing at will.
Claiming poverty is a pernicious and frequently used argument made by the chancellor and her top lieutenants to justify both the dearth of librarians and the paucity of materials in school libraries. But that argument collapses in the face of even modest scrutiny. Mary Levy, a longtime DCPS budget observer and trusted council adviser, indicated back in the spring that money was being sequestered in budget line by the school system for unknown purposes. More than that we have a school system that can hardly be called underfunded when it's over $800 million this fiscal year for 46,000 student s. Anne Arundel County, Maryland has 76,300 students that it educates with a budget that is only $177,127,300 more than ours. And it has well-resourced libraries and librarians in every school. The City of Falls Church, Virginia, with 2,200 students in four schools is in a similar situation and it has a budget of $37,603,600. The United States Department of Defense Education Activity has 84,803 students in schools worldwide. The current fiscal year has it operating with $1.44 billion and it has good libraries and librarians in every school. These are school systems with lower per-pupil spending than DCPS. Looking around the country at state capitals one sees a far greater commitment to school libraries. Helena, Montana has librarians in every school as does Jefferson City, Missouri and Olympia, Washington.
Bismarck, North Dakota has a librarian and aide in every school. In fact this city of 16,000 has a comparable number of library staff working in its schools as does DCPS!
Clearly good school libraries are not beyond us in economic terms. Our school system's leadership has made a choice, a bad choice, in not investing in school libraries. And the cost of their indifference toward them is borne by students and taxpayer. Students are being deprived of a critically-need pedagogic tool and taxpayers risk having to pay for a modernization that parents do not embrace because the schools are incomplete. In spite of the fact that Anacostia High School just opened after a $62 million modernization, its new library does not have a single book. The old collection was lost and the chancellor says there is no money to buy a new one. When H.D. Woodson High School students returned to their brand-new $110 million building, they came into a structure with a library containing 450 volumes. That figure should be 10,000. Again, most of its collection had been lost during construction and, again, the chancellor says there is no money to bolster its collection. And Eastern High School, which was the beneficiary of a $74 million modernization, had half its collection lost during storage at Shaw at Garnet-Patterson Middle School. The average age of the books in Eastern's small library is 1980.
School libraries do not depend on school closures. Rather they require a both a recognition of their importance and the competence to administer properly. We have one of the worst school library programs of any large school district in the United States. Many of the schools are either bereft of books or librarians or both. And that is by choice. The council has the ability to fix this situation. I hope it will urge the chairman to hold a hearing Councilman Evans' bill requiring a librarian in every school. And I hope it will embrace a more fulsome solution to the school library crisis. We have a $140 million budget surplus. The hole that the school libraries are in is of such a depth that it's hard to imagine the chancellor ever committing the resources from her budget to adequately dig them out. They need a $23 million school library-version of the Manhattan Project. Right now they are literally on the verge of extinction. We have far fewer librarians than we did in 2000. We have a smaller number of students served by a library media center than in 1954, according to figures from the National Center for Education Statistics.
I've attached a link to a proposal that was printed in The Washington Post. It outlines how such a sum would be spent.
Peter MacPherson
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Save School Libraries Protest on Friday, October 19 – Wilson Building
Can't make the Rally? What else can you do to help Save School Libraries?
- Read this fact sheet –> Library Facts Handout 9-19 and reach out to the Mayor Gray, your Councilmember and Chancellor Henderson.
- Support Council Member Jack Evans' bill to restore DCPS funding for librarians, art and music teachers.
- Encourage local leaders to support this effort, like ANC6B's Resolution.
- Sign the online petition.
- Tell the world you support our DC Public School Librarians. 'Like' CHPSPO on Facebook, follow @CHPSPO on Twitter, tweet #SaveSchoolLibraries. Keep up with updates via http://chpspo.org
Barracks Row #SaveSchoolLibraries pop-up library – thank you!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our mini pop-up library on Saturday in support of DCPS Librarians. We met dozens of school and community librarians from DC and all over the country, children of librarians, and of course, supporters of librarians. In a short period of time, we gave away dozens of books, raised over $650 towards continued advocacy and media buy for #SaveSchoolLibraries, and added over 100 signatures to the petition to restore DCPS budget for librarians.
Special thanks to ANC6B Commissioner Brian Pate for organizing the event, ANC6D Commissioner David Garber for pitching in and volunteering, and to Restauranteur Xavier Cervera for donating $1500 in restaurant gift certificates (Lolas, Molly Malone's, Senarts, Hawk N Dove and more!) that went towards a silent auction to help us raise funds.
As always, it takes a village. Thanks to the volunteers (adults and kids) who made this happen. Enjoy these photos of the event.
What can you do to help Save School Libraries?
- Read this fact sheet –> Library Facts Handout 9-19 and reach out to the Mayor Gray, your Councilmember and Chancellor Henderson.
- Support Council Member Jack Evans' bill to restore DCPS funding for librarians, art and music teachers.
- Encourage local leaders to support this effort, like ANC6B's Resolution.
- Sign the online petition.
- Tell the world you support our DC Public School Librarians. 'Like' CHPSPO on Facebook, follow @CHPSPO on Twitter, tweet #SaveSchoolLibraries. Keep up with updates via http://chpspo.org
Join Save School Libraries Pop-Up Library at Barracks Row Fall Festival on Sep 22!
CHPSPO is joining forces with Commissioner Brian Pate to organize a booth at the Barracks Row Fall Festival (on Saturday, September 22) in support of DC Public School librarians and libraries.
Stop by the booth between 1-4PM for a mini Pop-Up Library and book swap (a small scale version of last week's). Thanks to Barracks Row business owners (thank you Xavier Cervera), we'll offer refreshments, too!
If you have books to donate to the pop-up library, please drop them off at 109 13th St., SE between Wednesday and Friday of this week (there will be a box under the steps) or bring them to the festival on Saturday.
What can you do to help Save School Libraries?
- Read this fact sheet –> Library Facts Handout 9-19 and reach out to the Mayor Gray, your Councilmember and Chancellor Henderson.
- Encourage local leaders to support this effort, like ANC6B's Resolution.
- Sign the online petition (or stop by our booth on Saturday to sign the paper version).
- Tell the world you support our DC Public School Librarians. 'Like' CHPSPO on Facebook, follow @CHPSPO on Twitter, tweet #SaveSchoolLibraries. Keep up with updates via http://chpspo.org
- Stop by the booth to show your support, pick up or drop off a book! – Want to volunteer at the booth? Contact email@example.com.
Save School Libraries Pop Up Library at H St Fest a Success!
Thanks to everyone who came out to the H Street Festival this weekend where we had over 2000 books and collected 601 handwritten signatures!
The Pop-up library at Toki Underground restaurant was fantastic: people perused books, read some and always left with a free, new book. Toki's owner Eric and ANC Commissioner David Garber (whose own mother is a librarian) were super supportive! See photos here.
Didn't make it? No worries, you can support this effort by signing the petition and by reaching out to DC leaders and asking them to save school libraries. Read this fact sheet for more information –> Library Facts Handout 9-19.
1000+ Signatures to Save School Libraries
Great News! The Restore Librarians to DC Schools petition on change.org has received over 1000 signatures! Add yours to support DCPS Libraries.


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