Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education

Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education
Author: Laura S. Hamilton
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2002-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0833033980

Test-based accountability systems that attach high stakes to standardized test results have raised a number of issues on educational assessment and accountability. Do these high-stakes tests measure student achievement accurately? How can policymakers and educators attach the right consequences to the results of these tests? And what kinds of tradeoffs do these testing policies introduce? This book responds to the growing emphasis on high-stakes testing and offers recommendations for more-effective test-based accountability systems.

Sweating the Small Stuff

Sweating the Small Stuff
Author: David Whitman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2008
Genre: Academic achievement
ISBN:

This book tells the story of six secondary schools that have succeeded in eliminating or dramatically shrinking the achievement gap between whites and disadvantaged black and Hispanic students. It recounts the stories of the University Park Campus School (UPCS) in Worcester, the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, Amistad Academy in New Haven, the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, the KIPP Academy in the Bronx, and the SEED school in Washington, D.C.

Watching Worms

Watching Worms
Author: Rocky Fuller
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9781683297666

Follow the directions to create a worm farm.

Math Fact Fluency

Math Fact Fluency
Author: Jennifer Bay-Williams
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416627227

This approach to teaching basic math facts, grounded in years of research, will transform students' learning of basic facts and help them become more confident, adept, and successful at math. Mastering the basic facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division is an essential goal for all students. Most educators also agree that success at higher levels of math hinges on this fundamental skill. But what's the best way to get there? Are flash cards, drills, and timed tests the answer? If so, then why do students go into the upper elementary grades (and beyond) still counting on their fingers or experiencing math anxiety? What does research say about teaching basic math facts so they will stick? In Math Fact Fluency, experts Jennifer Bay-Williams and Gina Kling provide the answers to these questions—and so much more. This book offers everything a teacher needs to teach, assess, and communicate with parents about basic math fact instruction, including The five fundamentals of fact fluency, which provide a research-based framework for effective instruction in the basic facts. Strategies students can use to find facts that are not yet committed to memory. More than 40 easy-to-make, easy-to-use games that provide engaging fact practice. More than 20 assessment tools that provide useful data on fact fluency and mastery. Suggestions and strategies for collaborating with families to help their children master the basic math facts. Math Fact Fluency is an indispensable guide for any educator who needs to teach basic math facts.

Neurodiversity in the Classroom

Neurodiversity in the Classroom
Author: Thomas Armstrong
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416614834

This book by best-selling author Thomas Armstrong offers classroom strategies for ensuring the academic success of students in five special-needs categories: learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, intellectual disabilities, and emotional and behavioral disorders.

Marine Corps Values

Marine Corps Values
Author: United States Marine Corps
Publisher:
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781410221841

The User's Guide to Marine Corps Values is to be used as a tool to help ensure that the values of the Corps continue to be reinforced and sustained in all Marines after being formally instilled in entry level training. This document is a compendium of discussion guides developed and used by Marine Corps formal schools. The guides are part of the formal inculcation of values in young Marines, enlisted and officer, during the entry level training process. This guide is designed to be used as a departure point for discussing the topics as a continuation of the process of sustaining values within the Marine Corps. The User's Guide also serves as a resource for leaders to understand the "talk" and the "walk" expected of them as leaders. New graduates of the Recruit Depots and The Basic School have been exposed to these lessons and expect to arrive at their first duty assignments and MOS schools to find these principles and standards exhibited in the Marines they encounter. Leaders must remember that as long as there is but one Marine junior to them, they are honor bound to uphold the customs and traditions of the Corps and to always "walk the walk and talk the talk." We are the "parents" and "older siblings" of the future leaders of the Marine Corps. America is depending on us to ensure the Marines of tomorrow are ready and worthy of the challenges of this obligation. Teaching, reinforcement, and sustainment of these lessons can take place in the field, garrison, or formal school setting. Instructional methodology and media may vary depending on the environment and location of the instruction. However, environment should not be considered an obstacle to the conduct or quality of theinstruction. This guide has been developed as a generic, universal training tool that is applicable to all Marines regardless of grade. Discussion leaders should include personal experiences that contribute to the development of the particular value or leadership lesson being di

In the Depths of a Coal Mine: With a New Introduction: Background and Relevance Today

In the Depths of a Coal Mine: With a New Introduction: Background and Relevance Today
Author: Stephen Crane
Publisher: Contemporary Research Press
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2020-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781733230018

Crane's "In the Depths of a Coal Mine" was originally published in McClure's Magazine, August 1894. S.S. McClure hired Crane, together with illustrator Corwin L. Linson, to write and illustrate a descriptive essay about the everyday horrors encountered in working in a typical American coal mine at the turn of the twentieth century. They toured, for two days, the Oxford Coal Mine in Scranton in the heart of Pennsylvania anthracite coal country. Their findings were quite graphic in showing the inhumane conditions and dangers of the mine, so much so that the essay was referenced in a healthcare bill for retired miners proposed by Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania in the twenty-first century. Through both word and illustration, writer and illustrator show the life-threatening conditions in mine labor shared by all the workers, from the young, lowly "pickers" to the older men doing the digging. The essay appeared during a time in American history when there were no regulations on the mines, and injuries and death to those working in the mines ran rampant. In a new introduction, Donna M. Northouse provides close examination of the literary and historical value of Crane's essay, its historical context, the aesthetic value of LInson's black-and-white charcoal illustrations, plus pertinent biographical information on Crane, Linson, and their friendship. The introduction ends with a survey of mining accidents beginning in 1860's America plus relevant political events, and Congressional legislation through 2019. Other sections of the book reprint the five paragraphs McClure's deleted from the holograph version of the manuscript and scholarship surrounding the variations in texts in the newspaper versions compared to the holograph manuscript and McClure's Magazine version.

Time for the U.S. to Reskill?

Time for the U.S. to Reskill?
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OCDE
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Adult education and state
ISBN: 9789264204898

This study identifies key lessons about the strategic objectives and directions which should form a frame for policy development in the US, including policy on adult learning and schooling.