Provides information about assessment and evaluation in fourth through eighth grade reading classes, presents a reading strategy curriculum, and features thirty-five reproducible assessment and record-keeping forms.
Provides standards and guidelines for library media specialists and others in individual states, districts, and sites for training information-literate students.
Explains how including measures of student achievement in teacher evaluations can help schools focus on meeting higher standards and describes programs implemented by four successful schools.
Explains how to better evaluate professional development in order to ensure that it increases student learning, providing questions for accurate measurement of professional development and showing how to demonstrate results and accountability.