evaluation

Presents six standards that provide criteria for judging the quality of mathematics assessments; and describes how those standards can be used to critique and improve assessment of the learning of mathematics.

Presents a model for teaching students how to assess their writing, showing how to link assessment to revision, and includes focused lessons on the six traits of good writing, advice for adapting the six-trait teaching model, and samples of student writing.

Provides tools and strategies for using Response to Intervention (RTI) in kindergarten through sixth-grade reading classrooms, discussing collecting and assessing data, targeted follow-up instruction, and other related topics, and offering reproducible rubrics, data charts, class checklists, and more.

Presents an alternative version of American history by both British and Canadian textbooks as well as the French, Russian, Cuban, Iranian, and Native American Indian teachings that challenges the biases of American education.

Discusses finding information on the Internet and explains how to determine its credibility and present it.

Describes how to find and choose useful information, provides examples of reliable sources, and includes a related activity.

Examines the failings of America's mental health treatment system, focusing on the federal government's closing of institutions.

Identifies some of the problems with many teacher evaluation systems, presents a rationale for teacher evaluation, and describes a structural framework for designing an effective evaluation system for beginning and tenured teachers.