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Theodore Boone volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and his future on the line, Theo must follow his keen instincts to do whats right.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"In many public schools, students are spending up to 28 percent of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this year, the introduction of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 45 states will bring an unprecedented level of new, more difficult, and longer mandatory tests to nearly every classroom in the nation up to five times a year--forcing our national testing obsession to a crisis point. Taxpayers are spending extravagant...
150) The Scandal
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Future lawyer Theodore Boone finds himself in the middle of a cheating scandal when an anonymous tip leads the Strattenberg school board to investigate suspicious standardized testing scores at another local middle school
152) Test
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire life, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test.
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Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Discusses standardized testing in schools and the controversy about its value as a tool, the history of testing, standards, and scoring, the No Child Left Behind Act, the effects on teaching, cheating among students and teachers, and public opinion about the topic.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
By integrating formative assessment practices into daily activities, educators can substantially increase the rate of student learning. The second edition of this best-selling resource presents new research, insights, and techniques teachers can immediately apply in their classrooms. Updated examples and templates are included to help teachers elicit evidence of learning, provide meaningful feedback, and empower students to take ownership of their...
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Pub. Date
c2000
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"Our students are tested to an extent that is unprecedented in American history and unparalleled anywhere in the world. Politicians and businesspeople, determined to get tough with students and teachers, have increased the pressure to raise standardized test scores. Unfortunately, the effort to do so typically comes at the expense of more meaningful forms of learning." "That disturbing conclusion emerges from Alfie Kohn's devastating new indictment...
159) GRE
Pub. Date
2019-
Description
GRE For Dummies with Online Practice provides updated resources and preparation strategies to help you score your very best on exam day. Use trusted strategies to score your highest on the exam; master verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and analytical writing sections of the GRE; prepare for the test by answering sample questions and taking practice exams.
160) School reform
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
This collection of articles pro and con on school reform debates the policies that should guide reform; how students, teachers, and schools should be evaluated; the role of school choice in reform; and whether curriculum content should be reformed.