The book's goal is to clarify for parents, the public, and policy makers what high stakes tests are and how their use affects our schools, children, and society. It explores the various uses, limitations, and paradoxical consequences of high stakes testing. The present context of testing and the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind make the proposed book timely and important. Current testing programs provide valuable information to teachers, parents, and policy-makers about students, schools, and school systems. But paradoxically, these programs have unintended yet predictable negative...
The book's goal is to clarify for parents, the public, and policy makers what high stakes tests are and how their use affects our schools, children, a...
The book's goal is to clarify for parents, the public, and policy makers what high stakes tests are and how their use affects our schools, children, and society. It explores the various uses, limitations, and paradoxical consequences of high stakes testing. The present context of testing and the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind make the proposed book timely and important. Current testing programs provide valuable information to teachers, parents, and policy-makers about students, schools, and school systems. But paradoxically, these programs have unintended yet predictable negative...
The book's goal is to clarify for parents, the public, and policy makers what high stakes tests are and how their use affects our schools, children, a...
Between 1880 and 1940, English responses to French poetry evolved from marginalised expressions of admiration associated with rebellion against the 'establishment, ' to mainstream mutual exchange and appreciation. The translation of poetry underwent a simultaneous evolution, from attempts to produce definitive renderings to definitions of translation as an ongoing, generative process at the centre of literary debate.
This study traces the impact of French poetry in England, via a wide range of translations by major poets of the time as well as renderings by now-forgotten writers. It...
Between 1880 and 1940, English responses to French poetry evolved from marginalised expressions of admiration associated with rebellion against the 'e...
Emilee never imagined she'd find herself twenty-eight and alone. For seven years she waited for the man she loved to fully commit to her. Begin a future with her. Start a family. Instead, her only reward for her patience ... betrayal. For as long as she can remember, Emilee has dreamed of being a mother. Not wanting to start all over with another man -- she decides to take matters into her own hands, and have a baby on her own. Searching profiles in pursuit of her baby-daddy, Emilee comes across sperm donor 10378; a man with talent, intellect and charisma. But what most attracts her to him...
Emilee never imagined she'd find herself twenty-eight and alone. For seven years she waited for the man she loved to fully commit to her. Begin a futu...
