aims and objectives

Provides strategies for teaching information literacy and assesses how well students can practice what they learn.

Examines the history of higher education in the United States, the problems with the system now, and what can be done to make it available to future generations.

Presents nineteen essays that argue that the educational system in the United States incorrectly associates harder with better, subjecting young children to grades, homework, and standardized tests for no other reason than to prepare these children for the grades, homework, and standardized tests that they will encounter in the future.

A discussion of school improvement, examining the conditions that favor results, reviewing the theory behind the conditions, and demonstrating how anyone in virtually any school setting can begin to successfully replicate these conditions. Includes case studies.

Explores how children are forced to give up their love of learning and instead fall into a frantic game of rushing through work in order to please teachers and meet state standards and offers practical suggestions to help educators work with students' love of learning, rather than destroying it.

Presents a guide to aligning school library programs and instructional practice with research on the key concepts of brain-compatibility learning.