The Testing Trap

The Testing Trap
Author: George Hillocks
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2002-04-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807742295

Do statewide assessments really do what they are supposed to do? Through interviews with over three hundred teachers and administrators, Hillocks examines whether state writing tests in Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon, New York, and Texas actually improve students' ability to express their thinking in writing. Ultimately, Hillocks argues that the majority of existing tests actually have a harmful effect on the way students are taught to write. In addition to providing analyses of assessments that do not encourage good writing, The Testing Trap contrasts them to those that do. Concluding with practical procedures for examining and evaluating writing assessments, this book is a provocative and essential read for administrators, teachers, policymakers, parents, and all who care about the education of our children.

Walking in Circles

Walking in Circles
Author: Barbara A. Sizemore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

In 1947, nineteen-year-old Barbara Sizemore graduated from Northwestern University and left a job at Woolworth's to become a substitute classroom teacher on Chicago's South Side. Twenty-six years later, she was appointed superintendent of the Washington, DC, school system--the first African American woman to hold such a position in a major city. In 1992, she was appointed dean of the School of Education at DePaul University in Chicago, after a truly exceptional career in education that spanned more than five decades. ... Walking in Circles: The Black Struggle for School Reform, told in Sizemore's own voice, is at once an autobiography, a history of educational activism, and a presentation of experiences, perspectives and insights. The book offers a detailed overview of an extraordinary person committed to finding a way to offer quality education to the Black children growing up in America's cities. --Publisher description.

Everybody Needs a Coach in Life

Everybody Needs a Coach in Life
Author: Micheal Burt
Publisher: Savio Republic
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1682611612

Imagine having a person in your life that brings you clarity from confusion, confidence from insecurity, and accelerated instead of gradual growth. A good coach can change virtually every area of your life by drastically enhancing your knowledge, your skills, your desire, and your confidence and transform your low thoughts of value to high thoughts of value. Micheal Burt has won championships as a former head women's basketball coach. He has infused his coaching acumen with his business and entrepreneurial mindset. Burt embraces the concept of intense but, positive and brings a level of creativity, depth, and energy that very few coaches possess. He has the ability to cross over from the locker room to the board room and infuses ideas from both sport and business into each other's arena in ways that only a championship coach can. Everybody Needs a Coach in Life takes three decades worth of coaching and condenses it into a book that can change the way you see every area of your life by someone that knows how to get the most out of you. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #424242}

Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary

Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary
Author:
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Total Pages: 1372
Release: 2001-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Each volume separately titled: v. 1, Acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations dictionary; v. 2, New acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations (formerly issued independently as New acronyms and initialisms); v. 3, Reverse acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations dictionary (formerly issued independently as Reverse acronyms and initialisms dictionary).

ICMS 2023

ICMS 2023
Author: Robbi Rahim
Publisher: European Alliance for Innovation
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2023-12-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631904345

The 2nd International Conference of Multidisciplinary Studies (ICMS) was held on July 12, 2023 in Semarang, Indonesia. Our theme was “Smart Technology and Creative Economy Transformation to Support Post-Pandemic Development”. We used a double-blind review to ensure the quality of papers. Reviewers were not allowed to know the identity of the authors. Contributions of the ICMS conference to academia and society are: 1. Building a network between universities in Asia, 2. Increase interest in research in the fields of Information Technology, Economics, Tourism, Law, Engineering, and Linguistics, 3. Building networks between researchers, academics, professionals, and postgraduate students, particularly in the fields of Technology, Economics, Tourism, Law, Engineering, and Languages, 4. A means of disseminating scientific ideas and research results to be documented in scientific publications.