standards

Introduces a five-step model for planning information skills learning activities and evaluating student work, covering the framework's theoretical background, related research, and implementation and providing lesson plans for prekindergarten through twelfth grade and a CD-ROM containing teacher and student handbooks, a collaborative planning template, and other tools.

A guide to planning rigorous instruction that helps students pass tests, become engaged in the learning process, and improve their problem solving and critical thinking skills, providing step-by-step directions and covering units and assessment, selecting content, and choosing strategies.

Questions what is wrong with our education system and analyzes almost every aspect of conventional education policy including college rankings, admissions, aptitude tests. Challenges what policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. Includes an index, tables, and diagrams.

Essays examine major controversies in education such as the use of tests, tuition tax credits, desegration and the quality of American schools.

Offers librarians practical strategies to help them implement the ACRL's standards for information literacy and use those standards to improve students' ability to master information literacy skills.

Discover how to weave an in-depth understanding of the Common Core into successful classroom practice with this two-part resource. Included are hundreds of ready-to-use, research-based proficiency scales for both English language arts and mathematics.

Discusses the implications of national, state, and local standards in the classroom, describes each of the four components of a classroom that is aligned with standards, and provides strategies for helping students meet the standards requirements.

Draws from national reports, research summaries, and professional position papers to provide explanations of what constitutes instructional excellence in the main school curriculum areas; and includes examples of those standards at work in real classrooms at all grade levels.

Discusses what students should be expected to know and understand about science at different grade levels and describes how teachers can help students learn these skills.