We know what it takes to succeed in the classroom and on tests. This book includes strategies that are proven to improve student performance. We provide - content review based on New Jersey standards and objectives - detailed lessons, complete with skill-specific activities - 2 complete practice HSPA Language Arts Literacy tests with thorough explanations for each question For more information about our products for grades K--12, call 1-800-Review-2 or visit k12.princetonreview.com.
We know what it takes to succeed in the classroom and on tests. This book includes strategies that are proven to improve student performance. We provide - content review based on New Jersey standards and objectives - detailed lessons, complete with skill-specific activities - 2 complete practice HSPA Mathematics tests with thorough explanations for each question For more information about our products for grades K--12, call 1-800-Review-2 or visit k12.princetonreview.com.
Performance assessment is a hot topic in school systems, and educators continue to analyze its costs, benefits, and feasibility as a replacement for high-stakes testing. Until now, researchers and policymakers have had to dig to find out what we know and what we still have to learn about performance assessment. Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning synthesizes the latest findings in the field, and not a moment too soon. Statistics indicate that the United States is in danger of falling behind if it fails to adapt to our changing world. The memory and recall strategies of traditional testing are no longer adequate to equip our students with the skills they need to excel in the global economy. Instead teachers need to engage students in deeper learning, assessing their ability to use higher-order skills. Skills like synthesizing information, understanding evidence, and critical problem-solving are not achieved when we teach to multiple-choice exams. Examples in Beyond the Bubble Test paint a useful picture of how schools can begin to supplement traditional tests with something that works better. This book provides new perspectives on current performance assessment research, plus an incisive look at what’s possible at the local and state levels. Linda Darling-Hammond, with a team of leading scholars, bring together lessons learned, new directions, and solid recommendations into a single, readily accessible compendium. Beyond the Bubble Test situates the current debate on performance assessment within the context of testing in the United States. This comprehensive resource also looks beyond our U.S. borders to Singapore, Hong Kong, and other places whose reform-mindedness can serve as an example to us.
Make Learning Fun and More Effective. The Making the Grade books published by SCORE! are excellent tools for you to help your child build the necessary skills and confidence to perform well in school and meet the tough, new academic standards enocted by many states. Using SCORE!'s motivational teaching methods, the book includes. a thorough review of key 5th- and 6th-grade subjects hundreds of skill building activities effective strategies to help improve test-taking abilities tips on how you can positively affect your child's success in school a special section from the test preparation experts at Kaplan on helping you child prepare for standardized tests Most important, this unique book outlines how you can foster a lifelong love of learning in your child. Making the Grade: Grades 5-6 lays a solid foundation for future success in school -- and in life.
Since the 1980s, the relationship between social class and education has been overshadowed by scholarship more generally targeting issues of race, gender, and representation. Today, with the global economy deeply immersed in social inequalities, there is pressing need for serious class-based analyses of schooling, family life and social structure. The Way Class Works is a collection of twenty-four groundbreaking essays on the material conditions of social class and the ways in which class is produced "on the ground" in educational institutions and families. Written by the most visible and important scholars in education and the social sciences, these timely essays explore the production of class in and through the economy, family, and school, while simultaneously interrogating and challenging our understandings of social class as linked to race, gender, and nation. With essays by distinguished scholars and questions for further reflection and discussion, The Way Class Works will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in education, sociology, and beyond.
In Improbable Scholars, David L. Kirp challenges the conventional wisdom about public schools and education reform in America through an in-depth look at Union City, New Jersey's high-performing urban school district. In this compelling study, Kirp reveals Union's city's revolutionary secret: running an exemplary school system doesn't demand heroics, just hard and steady work.
Examines several questions about education: How good are state academic standards? How many states now match solid standards with strong school accountability? Are they better than two years ago? Chapters: overview essay, The State of Standards in 2000Ó; analytic essays by reviewers: English, by Sandra Stotsky; history, by David W. Saxe; Geography, by Susan Munroe; Mathematics, by Ralph A. Raimi; Science, by Lawrence S. Lerner; & State-by-State Reports. Appendices: criteria & detailed grades in English, History, Geography, Math, & Science; state documents examined; & school-based accountability. 30 charts & tables.
This book helps educators improve students’ ability to write clear, coherent essays in response to on-demand writing prompts. While it focuses on students’ abilities to succeed at on-demand writing, it also promotes the teaching of writing as an expression of art and self. For grades 4 -12, it provides examples of responses to narrative and persuasive prompts, and provides savvy advice about what scorers look for.
