NCJ Number
195538
Journal
Journal of Correctional Education Volume: 53 Issue: 2 Dated: June 2002 Pages: 52-57
Date Published
June 2002
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This article seeks to inform correctional educators working with confined youth about recent school reform measures identifying curriculum standards-based educational practices.
Abstract
The standards for information literacy provide essential life-skill competencies for educators and students. The key to information literacy competencies for both students and teachers is incorporating the library media teacher and the library media center into the correctional education program. School library services are essential to standards-based educational reform. Standards-based education fueled by the socioeconomic demands of technological change has brought the information literacy dynamic to the forefront of education reform. The speed of this process and the public and corporate demand for competent information literate workers influences a correctional education program directly. The article claims it is imperative that correctional educators examine the creation of school library media centers within correctional centers. The benefits could affect positively the literacy levels of the entire correctional community. References, appendix