"Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know How can you help your child at home? This book answers that important question and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American fourth graders. Featuring sixteen pages of full-color illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum,...

"A parents' guide to homeschooling"-- When you homeschool your children, you can shape their education according to your own standards, values, and ideas. In this book, homeschooler Sherri Linsenbach provides you with all the information, inspiration, and encouragement you need to easily and successfully homeschool your children from grades K-12. This complete guide contains information on: the Common Core standards and how they impact families;...

One of the pillars of the educational reform movement is curriculum. The curriculum needs to meet two goals: (1) Students need the breadth and depth of content knowledge not just facts for tests (2) But students also need to be taught what they need to know to pass high-stakes tests. Rigorous Curriculum Design is straightforward, sequential and explicit in presenting a step-by-step process educators/curriculum designers can follow to create units...

"Interest in homeschooling was booming even before the coronavirus pandemic inspired many parents to consider the homeschooling choice as an alternative to in-person classroom learning. Fully updated with new resources and technologies, this guide is just what you need to help you decide whether homeschooling is right for your family. Learn about the rewards and challenges presented by homeschooling, how to ensure that your children receive a well-rounded...

Navigating Implementation of the Common Core State Standards provides step-by-step strategies to ramp up the best of standards-based instructional practice at all levels of the organization. This is the first book in a series of four handbooks designed to provide a systematic approach to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The standards are explained, as well as why they are fair and effective. How to prepare faculty, monitor the effectiveness...

1200 color photographs showing how loose parts are used in early childhood settings and how they help children learn.

Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.