The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This debate, however, has proceeded with little attention to the tests themselves. This book makes a scholarly contribution to the debate by using the methods of discourse analysis to examine not only representative material from reading tests but also children's responses to it. The book is particularly attentive to the role of culture in shaping children's understanding of what they read.
The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This debate, however, has proceeded wit...
The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This debate, however, has proceeded with little attention to the tests themselves. This book makes a scholarly contribution to the debate by using the methods of discourse analysis to examine not only representative material from reading tests but also children's responses to it. The book is particularly attentive to the role of culture in shaping children's understanding of what they read.
The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This debate, however, has proceeded wit...
Larsen stretches conventional fiction's reach with this story of a character whose childhood and coming-of-age consist of his gradual internalizing of his coming to understand "the mysteries of space and time."
Larsen stretches conventional fiction's reach with this story of a character whose childhood and coming-of-age consist of his gradual internalizing of...
More than a century has passed since the collapse and extinction of the American Nation, that massive and unprecedented catastrophe brought about equally by arsonists' flames and by massive, long-term, internal decay. As everyone knows, the full history of this once-great nation's doom was first gathered in the 2110 CE multi-volume work of scholarship, The Decline and Fall of the American Nation. Subsequently, under the auspices of the Universities of Asia Press, Beijing, there arrived a new and updated edition. As it happens, volume sixteen of that great work, in both editions, consists of...
More than a century has passed since the collapse and extinction of the American Nation, that massive and unprecedented catastrophe brought about equa...
This book's Introduction asks, "If buildings could talk, what would they say? If they could listen, see, remember-above all if they could speak-what would we hear from them?" Through twenty photographs of people who live, or who once lived, in it, a 90-year-old apartment building "narrates" its own history. Written pieces accompanying each portrait help explore the intertwining of the lives of these people-some young and just starting out, others well established with families and children, still others in their later years. The book's Introduction tells the stories of a number of others for...
This book's Introduction asks, "If buildings could talk, what would they say? If they could listen, see, remember-above all if they could speak-what w...
In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. Despite being one of the most cold and hostile environments on the planet, the Arctic Ocean has seen a steady and significant reduction of sea ice over the past seven years due to climate change. Because of this, Larsen's and Waters' trip-dubbed the "Last North Expedition"-is expected to be the last human-powered trek to the North Pole, ever. Filled with stunning, full-color photos and GPS maps plotting his...
In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere ...
