education

Identifies four classroom standards designed to improve student performance on state tests and allow schools and teachers some creative leeway, including rigor, thought, diversity, and authenticity, each with an explanation and related teaching and assessment strategies.

Author merges cognitive science with the educational agenda, showing how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational practices.

Offers advice to educators on how to start and maintain a program for getting parents involved in their childrens' schooling, explaining the workshop approach of encouraging parent participation, and describing sixteen effective workshops.

Discusses good and bad student testing, shows teachers how to construct accurate methods of assessment and use their results to teach, and explains how teachers can protect themselves and students by educating parents, policy makers, and others about what kinds of testing are effective.

Author demonstrates how recent approaches in teaching can be used in the teaching of reading.

Presents a practical guide that focuses on the importance of consistent curriculum that allows teachers to learn from one another.

Offers advice to teachers on how to build upon, plan, and implement a standards-based curriculum and related performance tasks and assessment rubrics, and discusses the teaching process.

Explains how the increasing globalization of work and rapid advancements in communications technology are making age-old teaching methods irrelevant and offers new strategies for today's curriculum.