STEM Road Map

STEM Road Map
Author: Carla C. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2015-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317620208

STEM Road Map: A Framework for Integrated STEM Education is the first resource to offer an integrated STEM curricula encompassing the entire K-12 spectrum, with complete grade-level learning based on a spiraled approach to building conceptual understanding. A team of over thirty STEM education professionals from across the U.S. collaborated on the important work of mapping out the Common Core standards in mathematics and English/language arts, the Next Generation Science Standards performance expectations, and the Framework for 21st Century Learning into a coordinated, integrated, STEM education curriculum map. The book is structured in three main parts—Conceptualizing STEM, STEM Curriculum Maps, and Building Capacity for STEM—designed to build common understandings of integrated STEM, provide rich curriculum maps for implementing integrated STEM at the classroom level, and supports to enable systemic transformation to an integrated STEM approach. The STEM Road Map places the power into educators’ hands to implement integrated STEM learning within their classrooms without the need for extensive resources, making it a reality for all students.

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (2011)

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (2011)
Author: Traci Cook
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2011-07-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1437989276

The Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics develops priorities for collecting data on children and youth, improve the reporting and dissemination of information on the status of children to the policy community and the general public, and produce more complete data on children at the State and local levels. This report presents key indicators grouped in seven sections: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. In addition, this year's report includes a new indicator on teen immunizations that will allow the tracking of newly recommended adolescent vaccines. Extensive charts, tables and graphs. A print on demand report.

Who's in and Who's Out

Who's in and Who's Out
Author: Jere R. Behrman
Publisher: IDB
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2003
Genre: Discrimination in education
ISBN: 1931003424

Explores various forms of social exclusion in Latin America, including residential segregation in Bolivian cities, exclusion in health care in Brazil, barriers to legal status of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica, geographic isolation in El Salvador, and educational inequality among the indigenous in Mexico.

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (2nd Edition)

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (2nd Edition)
Author: Michael Harvey
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1603848983

This worthy successor to Strunk and White* now features an expanded style guide covering a wider range of citation cases, complete with up-to-date formats for Chicago, MLA, and APA styles.