DescriptionEducational accountability is here to stay. Comprehensive educational accountability, if designed and implemented effectively, can be the one initiative that helps schools create sustained and meaningful reform. Accountability in Action is a practical, step-by-step guide to the creation of a comprehensive accountability system. This audiobook provides a bridge between standards implementation and the systems that will help schools assess which programs and services result in high student achievement. Dr. Reeves demonstrates how policy makers, leaders, teachers, parents, and students can use comprehensive accountability systems to implement teaching and learning programs that help all students succeed.
DescriptionStandards are the foundation of our educational systems today. Fairness, rigor, and high achievement for all students are the focus of standards-based schools. Yet the standards movement means nothing if it does not improve student achievement in the classroom. In this revised edition, Dr. Reeves provides step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement standards-based performance assessment to make improved teaching and learning a reality in the classroom.
DescriptionThis audio reference book provides clear answers to commonly asked questions about the most pressing issues in education today. Standards and standardized tests, writing and student achievement, accountability systems, interventions for under-performing students, standards and the arts, motivation, leadership issues, plus many more topics are addressed in this handbook for educators. Dr. Reeves clearly articulates responses to questions he has received over the years during teacher workshops and national presentations, while facilitating K-12 accountability task force meetings and working with students in the classroom, and as the Test Doctor on the Internet. This audiobook is a helpful reference for understanding the issues and improving communication among teachers, parents, students, and all stakeholders in school communities.
DescriptionThe life of Jimmy Crocker has been little more than one drunken brawl after another. His formidable Aunt Nesta has had enough of his antics and decrees that the young Crocker must be reformed. However, Jimmy has fallen in love and decided to reform himself. Unfortunately, to win the heart of his intended, Jimmy must pretend to be someone else and take part in the kidnapping of Aunt Netsa's loathsome offspring Ogden. The reformation of oneself can be a decidedly tricky business.
DescriptionIn the three years since the publication of the first volume of 101 Questions & Answers about Standards, Assessment, and Accountability, Dr. Reeves and the Center for Performance Assessment have continued to receive and respond to real-world questi…
DescriptionBy being too timid and too weak, too hesitant and too confused, Democrats have allowed Republicans to run amok. Republicans today control everything: the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, the federal bureaucracy, the military, and the corpor…
