aims and objectives

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.

Presents varying viewpoints on issues related to education, both fundamental and contemporary.

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

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

Presents a comprehensive guide for teachers, administrators, parents, and community members designed to help students develop their own educational philosophies, be prepared for college and for life, and be more effective learners.

A discussion of school improvement, examining the conditions that favor results, and discussing teamwork, measurable goals, performance data, rapid results, research and development, and opportunities for action within various subject areas.

Draws on empirical evidence to explore how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education, and explains why they often do not meet those goals in areas such as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning.

Examines the influence of athletics on such college and university aspects as class composition, budgetary spending, campus ethos, and a school's core mission.