evaluation

Describes strategies and tools school librarians and media specialists may use to help students assess their own learning, and includes examples of how assessment can be incorporated into library-related learning activities.

Describes the read-and-retell teaching strategy for whole-language/natural literacy learning.

Provides descriptions of each of the six elements of resilience, and features strategies school library media specialists may use to help support students faced with poverty, violence, illness, neglect, or other adversities.

Contains lessons on the writing process designed to help students grow as writers and perform well on state tests.

The author maintains that the Bush administration deliberately failed to prevent the September 11, 2001 attacks and was possibly involved in the planning and execution of the attacks, and states that the commission failed to address the discrepancies in the hijackers' identities.

Examines the 2002 Federal "No Child Left Behind" law and explains how this law actually damages both the schools and its students including the "dumbing down" of standardized tests rather than setting higher standards of achievement.