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In his powerful debut collection Twelfth Year and Other Stories, Randy Hendricks paints each of his characters with a few meticulous strokes. Characters in search of identity, in search of the right path, in search of answers, drive each story and the questions each poses. In "The Stove, " Joby Johnson must contend with the weight of his own pride and the questions it raises about who he is and who he wants to be. Sitting in a hospital waiting room, Caleb Vance must confront his own regrets as he looks back on his wife and their life together in the story "D & C." The narrator of "Ruins"...

The public schools of America are in the throes of a reform movement that has established accountability for educational outcomes as the driving force behind school improvement. High Stakes Testing and School Reform explores the effectiveness of standardized testing and accountability as the primary methods for improving America's public schools. The results of this study suggest that high stakes testing is overemphasized as a school reform policy.

For four decades, Knoxville, Tennessee, native David Madden has been writing compelling bestsellers, such as Bijou and The Suicide s Wife, as well as highly respected literary novels, such as Sharpshooter. David Madden: A Writer for All Genres is the first full-length critical work devoted to the whole of Madden s oeuvre, and collectively the essays make the case that the attention paid to Madden s novels has overshadowed his innovative work as a critic, poet, short-story writer, and dramatist. Madden is indeed a writer for all genres poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. Having compiled the...