educational accountability

"A young adult nonfiction book on how Albany High School handles a racist social media incident that incurs lasting and devastating consequences.".

Presents an overview of how school cultures function, and discusses four "types" of educators--believers, fundamentalists, tweeners, and survivors--and describes how to maintain a balanced dynamic between them to improve the school's culture and increase the learning potential for students.

Presents the full text of the No Child Left Behind Act, and contains a CD-ROM of resources and references.

Presents the notion that test-based accountability has failed educational improvement, harming students and corrupting the ideals of teaching.

From one perspective, the focus of this book is on how knowledge of instruction as one component or thread in the teaching and learning process can assist in responding to that never-ending process to create meaningful and powerful learning environments. From another perspective this book is a personal reflection , it reflects our own evolution and current understanding about creating meaningful learning environments.

Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.

"The idea of the learning commons ... [is] to transform the central idea of a school library stocked with resources repository into a vibrant and central component of teaching and learning in the school community ... [Introduces] the idea of the learning commons as the extension of each classroom, the cross-classroom connection, and the center of active learning that extends beyond the school ... [Includes] resources to use and strategies to build and create a ... learning community"--Pages ix-x.

Examines the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, showing changes the Act effected, including its requirements for testing, and includes a guide to the Act from the U.S. Department of Education. Includes a CD-ROM with the full text of the Act.