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Presents six research-based, classroom-proven strategies to help teachers and students respond to the demands of the Common Core.

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.