More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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I have worked really hard to build a robust, diverse classroom library. It has taken years to build up, and I like to think it has a little bit of everything...including a few manga titles. Let me tell you: students from every period in every year have always flocked to those manga paperbacks. And I don't mind it! I know there are teachers out there who don't like their students reading manga, but I've read enough of them (and seen enough anime) to know that these comics contain rich characters and complex plots that rival any novel from your Western YA section.
If manga is what they love-- and boy do they-- then manga is what I want. When you use a text (book, short story, poem) that kids aren't enthusiastic about to teach a complicated concept, you're suddenly fighting two battles at once. A fully-formed manga section in my library will allow me to teach those complicated concepts with books the students want to read. People learn best when they're practicing in a safe environment with familiar tools; nobody's first rehearsal is at Carnegie Hall. Why should it be any different with English?
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I have worked really hard to build a robust, diverse classroom library. It has taken years to build up, and I like to think it has a little bit of everything...including a few manga titles. Let me tell you: students from every period in every year have always flocked to those manga paperbacks. And I don't mind it! I know there are teachers out there who don't like their students reading manga, but I've read enough of them (and seen enough anime) to know that these comics contain rich characters and complex plots that rival any novel from your Western YA section.
If manga is what they love-- and boy do they-- then manga is what I want. When you use a text (book, short story, poem) that kids aren't enthusiastic about to teach a complicated concept, you're suddenly fighting two battles at once. A fully-formed manga section in my library will allow me to teach those complicated concepts with books the students want to read. People learn best when they're practicing in a safe environment with familiar tools; nobody's first rehearsal is at Carnegie Hall. Why should it be any different with English?