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  • Teaching in the Flat World

    Learning from High-Performing Systems

    by Linda Darling-Hammond, Robert Rothman ...
    Teaching in the Flat World will help school systems improve their teacher workforce by drawing important lessons from nations with high-performing educational systems, as well as from successful state experiments in the United States.The authors examine common features and differences in the approaches of high-performing systems that made education a top priority and developed high-leverage ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Something in Common

    The Common Core Standards and the Next Chapter in American Education

    by Robert Rothman ...
    Series series HEL Impact Series
    Something in Common is the first book to provide a detailed look at the groundbreaking Common Core State Standards and their potential to transform American education.This book tells the story of the unfolding political drama around the making of the Common Core State Standards for math and English language arts, which were adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia over a six-month period ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Fewer, Clearer, Higher

    How the Common Core State Standards Can Change Classroom Practice

    by Robert Rothman ...
    Series series HEL Impact Series
    In clear and concise language, veteran education writer Robert Rothman identifies nine instructional “shifts” encouraged by the new Common Core State Standards and provides examples of how teachers and school districts are overcoming challenges in implementation.He presents the research and rationale behind each change and provides examples of teachers making the shifts as well as sample test ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Leadership for Differentiating Schools and Classrooms

    by Carol Ann Tomlinson, Susan Demirsky Allan ...
    Try going a week without hearing a call for a massive overhaul of our educational system. Parents, students, educators, bureaucrats, pundits . . . everyone says something must be done. But what? And who should do it?In this environment, school leaders must build bridges for change. As the system now stands, many students spend great portions of their lives feeling inferior if they struggle, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum

    by John Dewey ...
    This edition brings Dewey's educational theory into sharp focus, framing his two classic works by frank assessments, past and present, of the practical applications of Dewey's ideas. In addition to a substantial introduction in which Philip W. Jackson explains why more of Dewey's ideas haven't been put into practice, this edition restores a "lost" chapter, dropped from the book by Dewey in 1915. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Test

    Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don't Have to Be

    by Anya Kamenetz ...
    "[The anti-testing] movement now has a guidebook. . . . Kamenetz shows how fundamentally American it would be to move toward a more holistic system." -- New York Times Book ReviewThe Test is an essential and critically acclaimed book for any parent confounded by our national obsession with standardized testing. It recounts the shocking history and tempestuous politics of testing and borrows ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tested

    One American School Struggles to Make the Grade

    by Linda Perlstein ...
    The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores.To see if this world is producing better students, Linda ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

    by Herbert M. Kliebard ...
    Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for**the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • SBAs for the Part 1 MRCOG

    by Andrew Sizer, Neil Chapman ...
    This book provides advice, guidance and sample questions for the new question format introduced for the March 2012 Part 1 MRCOG examination: single best answer questions (SBAs). Essential reading for all Part 1 MRCOG candidates, the book offers key insights into the new style of paper, including: • an introduction to SBAs and why they have been introduced • a guide to how to approach and answer ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • Teaching Your Secondary ELLs the Academic Language of Tests

    Focusing on English Language Arts

    by r4Educated Solutions ...
    Research shows that when English language learners understand the vocabulary used on tests, their scores soar—critical information for schools in an age of testing and accountability. This manual provides evidence-based, teacher-friendly lesson plans that will help English language learners deal with unfamiliar language features on standardized test questions. Teaching Your Secondary ELL Students ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Becoming a History Teacher

    Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing

    Edited by Ruth Sandwell, Amy von Heyking ...
    A revolution in history education is propelling historical thinking and knowing to the forefront of history and social studies education in North America and beyond. Teachers, teacher education programs, schools, and ministries of education across Canada are all among those embracing the idea that knowing history means knowing how to think historically.Becoming a History Teacher is a collection of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Complete Guide to Rubrics

    Assessment Made Easy for Teachers, K-College

    by Audrey M. Quinlan ...
    This book takes a developmental perspective at the use of scoring rubrics to assess student work. Citing developmental characteristics of each age, the author presents examples and adaptations of assessment rubrics on a variety of subjects for teachers from kindergarten through adult/college. After a presentation of foundation information on rubrics, separate chapters are devoted to each grade ... Read more

    $42.89 USD