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Beyond Testing - Seven Assessments Of Students And Schools More Effective Than Standardized Tests

by Deborah Meier e Matthew Knoester

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 Argues that a fundamentally complex problem - how to assess the knowledge of a child - cannot be reduced to a simple test score. Beyond Testing describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results.
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Cracks In The Schoolyard - Confronting Latino Educational Inequality

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 Challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case studies of social inequality and education, this book features achievement cases that depict Latinos as active actors - not hopeless victims - in the quest for social and economic mobility.
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Improving Teacher Evaluation Systems - Making The Most Of Multiple Measures

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 This is the first book to pull together what we have learned about the impacts and challenges of data-intensive teacher evaluation systems. Expert researchers and practitioners speak to what we know (and what remains to be known) about evaluation measures themselves, the implementation of evaluation systems, and the use of evaluation data.
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Identity Work In The Classroom - Successful Learning In Urban Schools

by Cheryl Jones-Walker

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 Provides classroom examples to demonstrate how identity-making is integral to the teaching and learning process. Based on an in-depth study of two classrooms in urban Kâ€"8 schools, the book illuminates the importance of allowing teachers the freedom to make pedagogical adjustments based on their knowledge of studentsâ€™ needs, backgrounds, and interests.
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The University Next Door - What Is A Comprehensive University, Who Does It Educate, And Can It Survive?

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 The challenges public comprehensive universities face today are expanding. While these universities have a long history of adapting to change, todayâ€™s environment will likely test the capabilities of even the most adaptive institutions. This volume assembles a team of experts from a variety of disciplines to examine both the history of the comprehensive university and what lies ahead.
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Exploring Mathematics Through Play In The Early Childhood Classroom

by Amy Noelle Parks

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 Provides pre- and inservice teachers with an understanding of how maths can be learned through play. The author helps teachers to recognise the mathematical learning that occurs during play, to develop strategies for mathematizing that play, and to design formal lessons that make connections between mathematics and play.
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Transforming Talk Into Text - Argument Writing, Inquiry, And Discussion, Grades 6-12

by Thomas M. Mccann

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 Author Thomas McCann invites readers to rethink their approach to teaching writing by capitalizing on studentsâ€™ instinctive desire to talk. Drawing on extensive classroom research, he shows teachers how to craft class discussions that build studentsâ€™ skills of analysis, problem-solving, and argumentation as a means of improving student writing.
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Public Education--America'S Civil Religion - A Social Story

by Carl L. Bankston e Stephen J. Caldas

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 Traces America's faith in the capacity of public education to solve social, economic, and political problems from before the civil war up to the No Child Left Behind legislation. This title discusses how this faith in education often makes it difficult for Americans to think realistically about the capacities and limitations of public schooling.
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On Formative And Design Experiments - Approaches To Language And Literacy Research

by Barbara Bradley e David Reinking

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 Formative and design experiments represent a methodology suited for educational research in general and literacy research in particular. This work addresses questions like what is the origin of formative and design experiments and how do they compare to other approaches to investigating interventions in classrooms?
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Guiding Children'S Behavior - Developmental Discipline In The Classroom

by Eileen S. Flicker e Janet Andron Hoffman

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 A guide to behavior management for teachers, parents, and other caregivers. Starting with infancy, this work explains that typical daily routines are prime opportunities for parents and childcare providers to introduce limits to very young children. It also takes a look at ways to guide the behavior of preschoolers and kindergartners.
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Teaching For Thinking Today - Theory, Strategies, And Activities For The K-8 Classroom

by Selma Wassermann

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 We live in a climate of vigorous testing and memorization, so how can we both engage and challenge our children to learn and become thinking citizens in our society? This book provides classroom strategies that enable and empower students to grasp the 'big ideas' across virtually all curriculum areas and apply this knowledge to problem solving.
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What Keeps Teachers Going?

by Sonia Nieto

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 What helps great public school teachers persevere - in spite of everything? Sonia Nieto, a teacher educator, takes a close look at what can be learned from veteran teachers who not only continue to teach but also manage to remain enthusiastic about it.
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New York City'S Best Public Middle Schools - A Parents' Guide

by Clara Hemphill

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 Features reviews of 74 of New York City's best public middle schools. Providing things parents need to know in choosing a middle school that is just right for their child, this book features interviews with teachers, parents, and students to uncover the 'inside scoop' on schools - including atmosphere, homework, student stress, and competition.
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On Critically Conscious Research - Approaches To Language And Literacy Research

by Arlette Ingram Willis, Catherine Hunter, Helena Hall e Mary Montavon

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 Focuses on how critical theories are manifested in language and literacy research. This book discusses critical consciousnesses in various places, at various times in the world, and at varying levels in language and literacy research.
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Coaching Whole School Change - Lessons In Practice From A Small High School

by David Allen e Suzy Ort

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 A guide to coaching in a small school setting. It provides small school administrators and practitioners with a means to institute and facilitate coaching in their ranks, especially important in new small schools where many teachers are new to the system and the profession.
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The Nature And Limits Of Standards-Based Reform And Assessment - Defending Public Schools

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 A collection of essays that presents an overview of the origins and development of standards-based educational reform and assessment. It offers a description of the standards-based educational reform movement's essential elements, and an analysis of the means and ends of what is perhaps the most important reform effort US schools have experienced.
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What Was It Like? - Teaching History And Culture Through Young Adult Literature

by Linda J. Rice

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 Intended for teachers who want to engage their students with young adult literature. This book presents instructional units centered on historical conflicts and texts. It features an array of learning strategies, which place students close to the featured novel or memoir while meeting standards and addressing a range of critical thinking skills.
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No Quick Fix - Rethinking Literacy Programs In America'S Elementary Schools

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 Introduces a framework for the response to intervention initiative. This book is useful to teachers, principals, administrators, policymakers, and people interested in creating schools where all students learn to read. It outlines the key factors essential for effective reform of early literacy programs.
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Why Our Schools Need The Arts

by Jessica Hoffmann Davis

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 Presents the way to a different kind of advocacy: one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subject, teach our kids. This book offers a set of principles and tools that aim to secure a strong place for the arts in education.
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Building On Strength - Language And Literacy In Latino Families And Communities

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 Offering a fresh perspective on language socialization in Latino families, this book provides a historical, political, and cultural context for the language attitudes and socialization practices that help determine what and how Latino children speak, read, and write.
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School Choice And Diversity - What The Evidence Says

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 Using sociological, economic, and political analysis, the authors present studies of controlled and voluntary choice plans, charter schools, private school selection, and their interaction with race, social class, gender, and student disability.
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New Literacies In Action - Teaching And Learning In Multiple Media

by William Kist

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 This book examines the work of pioneers: teachers who have transformed their classrooms in an effort to broaden the literacy of their students, describing some of the most innovative examples of teaching and learning.
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The Testing Trap - How State Writing Assessments Control Learning

by George Hillocks

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 Through interviews with over 300 teachers and administrators in the US, this text examines whether state writing tests do what they are supposed to do - improve educational systems. It argues most existing tests actually have a harmful effect on the way students are taught.
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In Search Of America'S Past - Learning To Read History In Elementary School

by Bruce Van Sledright e O.L. Davis

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 This text shows how young students can benefit from an investigative, inquiry-based approach to the study of history, as called for by US national standards. It conveys the results of a teacher-research project using anecdotes and provides guidelines for teaching novices.
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