standards

Contains opposing viewpoints on issues about educational standards; discussing No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, and school vouchers.

Presents a guide to the I-Search process that explains how it can help students improve their research skills, and includes activities and lessons to help teachers and librarians incorporate the method into their classrooms.

Susan Ohanian recounts her quest to make sense of the Standards educational movement.

Presents a process that schools and districts can use to incorporate local, state, and national standards into their curricula and develop an assessment system.

Offers step-by-step instructions and motivational strategies for educators and administrators for making the teaching and learning experience more emotionally and intellectually rewarding.

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.

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.

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.