This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across the content areas, rather than rely solely on rote memorization and standardized testing to measure academic success. Author John Barell shares vignettes from effective middle and high school teachers around the country, analyzes what works and what doesn't when encouraging students to dig deeper, and offers practical strategies that you can try in your own classroom.

Topics include:

• Guiding students to hone their skills...

This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across the content areas, rather than rely solely on rote memorization and standardized testing to measure academic success. Author John Barell shares vignettes from effective middle and high school teachers around the country, analyzes what works and what doesn t when encouraging students to dig deeper, and offers practical strategies that you can try in your own classroom.

Topics include:

• Guiding students to hone their skills in...

Consultation has long been a topic of key importance in U.S. School Psychology and has recently gained more attention in Educational Psychology worldwide. This handbook coheres leading research on the topic from all over the world, providing researchers and students, a foundationally global perspective on consulation in educational settings. In twenty-three chapters from leading experts, on the theory and practice of consultation.

The increasing diversity of the U.S. population has brought to the foreground the need to emphasize and promote multicultural competence in training,...

Consultation has long been a topic of key importance in U.S. School Psychology and has recently gained more attention in Educational Psychology worldwide. This handbook coheres leading research on the topic from all over the world, providing researchers and students, a foundationally global perspective on consulation in educational settings. In twenty-three chapters from leading experts, on the theory and practice of consultation.

The increasing diversity of the U.S. population has brought to the foreground the need to emphasize and promote multicultural competence in training,...

"Applebee's central point, the need to teach 'knowledge in context, ' is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum. His experience and knowledge give his voice an authority that makes many of the current proposals on both the left and right seem shallow by comparison."--Gerald Graff, University of Chicago

Caliendo examines the results of a comprehensive study of how students learn about American Government. The working premise is that while many political attitudes formed during adolescent socialization are open to change throughout one's life, latent attitudes that are not salient and, thus, are not challenged with new information provided by media or other communications are more likely to persist into adulthood. He focuses on diffuse support for the United States Supreme Court and argues that how students are taught about the Court in high school is likely to have a particularly lasting...