Comments on YA Highway: Field Trip Friday: January 20, 2012

Oh my goodness, what an awesome collection of link...

2012-01-23T22:10:50.656-05:00

Oh my goodness, what an awesome collection of links! Thank you for posting -- I'll be sitting here for a while clicking through them all I'm sure:)

Thanks for the shout out, Kate! As always, awesome...

2012-01-21T20:23:10.725-05:00

Thanks for the shout out, Kate! As always, awesome breakdown of the YA news this week. These posts are amazing.

Thanks for covering the book banning and shutterin...

2012-01-21T17:43:22.373-05:00

Thanks for covering the book banning and shuttering of the Mexican American Studies (MAS) program in Tucson. It is astounding... for years and years we've been asking for and promoting multicultural literature that provided students with reflections of themselves. The MAS program started giving students in the program (not just Mexican American students) precisely what we've been asking for... The student grades, school attendance, graduation rate... all of that improved!

It is a politically volatile situation. The teachers in that program... their day to day lives as teachers right now is so risky. If they use books they used before, they will be held responsible for violating the law, and the school will lose millions of state dollars. Can you imagine being one of those teachers?! One said that he would not teach from a Mexican American perspective, but, he asked, what should he do when one of his students asks a question rooted in a Mexican American perspective?! No clear guidance to teachers.... It is a nightmare.

Thanks to all of you as well! <3 Also, just wa...

2012-01-20T14:38:29.232-05:00

Thanks to all of you as well! <3

Also, just wanted to note that my snark at the beginning isn't annoyance at the posts linked-- I actually think several of them are worth reading. It's just exhaustion with the subject over all.

Thanks for sharing my link and all the other info....

2012-01-20T11:51:13.206-05:00

Thanks for sharing my link and all the other info., Kate! This is where I go to catch up over the weekend!

Thanks for linking to my post, YA Hwy! Also thanks...

2012-01-20T10:33:33.657-05:00

Thanks for linking to my post, YA Hwy! Also thanks for giving me so much weekend reading. :)

I'm also a big fan of your weekly updates. Tha...

2012-01-20T09:53:39.282-05:00

I'm also a big fan of your weekly updates. Thanks for continuing to do the hard work so we don't have to!

Love these links! Thanks so much for sharing this ...

2012-01-20T08:50:19.434-05:00

Love these links! Thanks so much for sharing this round-up every week. Now I have plenty of fantastic posts to read. :)