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National standards in American education : a citizen's guide / by Ravitch, Diane.(CARDINAL)157032;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-215) and index.The idea of standards -- A historical perspective -- Achievement: a review of the evidence -- Seeds of reform -- The politics of standards -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendix.Ravitch asserts that raising standards is about raising the achievement levels not only of the best students, but of all students. She suggests that deciding what children should learn is the first step toward achieving this goal. National standards should not discredit unorthodox educational programs or dictate instructional methods, however. Ravitch makes recommendations regarding the role of states in setting standards for schools and districts, the role of institutions of higher learning and business in promoting standards, and the role of assessments in maintaining standards. Ravitch contends that a system of standards and assessments, no matter how reliable, will not solve all the problems of American education, but it will help to get the teaching and learning parts of the educational system right. Ultimately the improvement of American education depends on widespread cultural support for educational achievement.
Subjects: Education; Education; Educational tests and measurements; Education and state;

Mu, 49 marks of abolition / by Han, Sora Y.,author.(CARDINAL)889479;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Savoir black -- Terra incognita -- Nonperformance -- Non liquet Blackness -- The sur-round -- Res nulla loquitur -- Mu."Sora Han's Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition is a work of radical legal theory in the form of an epic, 'stream of unconsciousness' prose poem that reads the law as a social text. Deploying polyglossic interpretation as a poetics of relation among English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and French-languages imbued with genealogical, colonial, theoretical and symbolic significance for Han-she develops a psychoanalytically inflected method of "dystranslation." After Han's father died in 2020, she took up the Korean Buddhist tradition of mu, mourning the dead for forty-nine days. Each of the book's forty-nine sections represent a day of mourning, an occasion for meditating on the law of surplus: surplus in language, surplus in oedipality, surplus of time in abeyance. Through engaging with texts across Asian and Asian American studies, Black studies, legal theory, and poetry, the book recalls the distinct post-1968 historical sense of "Asian American" as a radical anti-imperialist orientation of life and thought very much in conversation with other movements for social change. Not only do we encounter the complexity of being Korean American in relation to issues of Blackness, colonial imperialism, and the juridical and carceral inflected conditions of social existence in the US, but we also learn how to read across all these texts and conditions in a fluid dynamic multidirectional exchange of energy that opens up conventional fields of knowledge to novel possibilities of thinking"--
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Asian Americans; Ethnology; Law; Poetics.; Law.;

BUILDING ON EMERGENT CURRICULUM : the power of play for school readiness / by Vanover, Sarah Taylor,author.(CARDINAL)415018;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Theme-based units in the preschool classroom -- Emergent curriculum -- The importance of play -- "We already have a curriculum" -- Training teachers in emergent curriculum -- Explaining emergent curriculum to families -- Using emergent curriculum to buildschool readiness -- Emergent curriculum and developing social and emotional skills -- Emergent curriculum and developing handwriting skills -- Emergent curriculum and developing problem-solving skills -- Using process-based artwork to enrich emergent curriculum."Guidance for implementing play-based emergent curriculum in preschool classrooms, gaining teachers' and families' support, and using emergent curriculum to build school readiness"--
Subjects: Education, Preschool; Play.; Project method in teaching.; Readiness for school.; Student-centered learning.;

We want to do more than survive : abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom / by Love, Bettina L.,1979-author.(CARDINAL)856562;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-179) and index.Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life's work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom-not merely reform-teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
Subjects: Informational works.; African Americans; Community and school; Education; Educational change; Educational equalization; Éducation; Démocratisation de l'enseignement; Enseignement; Noirs américains;

Precalculus the easy way / by Leff, Lawrence S.,author.(CARDINAL)728716; Pawlowski, Christina M.,author.(CARDINAL)816586;
Study unit I: algebra and graphing methods -- Study unit II: functions and their graphs -- Study unit III: trigonometric analysis -- Study unit IV: polar coordinates and conic sections -- Study unit V: number patterns and calculus preview."A series of easy-to-follow lessons are designed for self-teaching and rapid learning to help students learn precalculus the easy way. Barron's Precalculus: The Easy Way features a generous number of step-by-step demonstration examples as well as numerous tables, graphs, and graphing-calculator-based approaches." --Amazon.com.
Subjects: Problems and exercises.; Algebra; Functions; Precalculus;

Project-based learning for elementary grades / by Madigan, Maura,1969-author.(CARDINAL)860001;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: The Basics -- Parts of a PBL Project -- Logistics -- Part II: PBL Projects -- Virtual PBL Projects -- Collaborative Projects -- How to Create a PBL Project -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Need-to-Know Sheet -- Appendix B: Progress Sheet -- Appendix C: Self-Reflection Sheet -- Appendix D: Peer-Reflection Sheet -- Appendix E: Assessment Rubric."Project-based Learning for Elementary Grades is divided into two parts; part I provides background information about project-based learning projects and tips to help your projects run smoothly. Part II includes fifteen versatile PBL projects that can be used with learners in grades K-6, as well as chapters on collaboration, virtual PBL projects, and how to create your own projects"--
Subjects: Elementary school libraries; Project method in teaching; School librarian participation in curriculum planning;

Grace period : my ordination to the ordinary / by Popham, Melinda Worth,author.(CARDINAL)781283;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244)."Author Melinda Worth Popham left home for Yale Divinity School at age fifty-six after a barrage of painful life events--above all, the nightmare of her teenage daughter's life-threatening depression. These events brought her to her knees, and a monastic method of meditation became her mainstay as well as her portal to the holy. This memoir, Grace Period, tells the story of one mother's experience of a daughter's intractable illness and the discovery that pain is the Miracle Gro of spiritual growth. The radical, mystical experience that ultimately propelled Popham to Yale Divinity School at a pivotal juncture in her life did not lead to the pursuit of late-call ordination to the ministry, but quite simply to her study of God. What she discovered, though, in the course of her two years there, was that, for her, encountering God happened beyond the study of theology at an Ivy League seminary. It came from her extracurricular encounters with offleash dogs, a shining meadow, bad neighbors, and fierce loneliness. Grace Period is not only about Popham's study of God, but about God's education of her."--Book jacket.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Popham, Melinda Worth.; Popham, Melinda Worth; Yale University. Divinity School.; Christian biography; Gifts, Spiritual.; God; Grace (Theology); Novelists, American; Spiritual life.; Women authors; Women graduate students;

Training of commercial motor vehicle drivers / by Staplin, L. K.(CARDINAL)310788; United States.Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.(CARDINAL)215157; Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (U.S.)(CARDINAL)308966; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287;
Includes bibliographical references.Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Content and quality of entry-level driver training programs -- Ch. 3. Strategies and techniques to enhance training effectiveness -- Ch. 4. Survey inputs on the value of alternative training methods.TRB's Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 5: Training of Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers identifies and documents training strategies and curricula from existing commercial driver training programs, with the goal of identifying those commercial motor vehicle driver training tools and techniques that hold the greatest potential to improve commercial motor vehicle safety.Research sponsored by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Subjects: Technical reports.; Truck driving; Motor vehicle driving; Automobile driver education.;

Rethinking our past [sound recording] recognizing facts, fictions, and lies in American history / by Loewen, James W.(CARDINAL)154287;
Course guide includes bibliographical references.lecture 1. Why study the past? -- lecture 2. Archaeology and prehistory -- Lecture 3. The politics and history of Columbus -- lecture 4. Pilgrims -- lecture 5. Native American societies and cultures -- lecture 6. The making and use of the Constitution -- lecture 7. Slavery -- lecture 8. The Civil War -- lecture 9. The Civil War (contiuned) and Reconstruction -- lecture 10. The nadir of race relations -- lecture 11. The nadir of race relations (continued) -- lecture 12. United States foreign policy -- lecture 13. Capitalism and social class -- lecture 14. Doing history yourself.Delivered by Professor Emeritus James W. Loewen, University of Vermont."This course is designed to enlighten and encourage you to consider the factual basis of many of our most-cherished yet glossed-over stories and the real-life characters who populate them. From archaeological misinformation to investigations into the nature of modern public policy, Professor Loewen challenges you to consider the history of what "was" rather than what has been told by standard teaching methods and textbooks"--Container.Compact disc.
Subjects: Audiobooks.;

Geodes. Uniting communities [kit] / by Klirs, Lior,author.; Oliver Cate,author.; Palmieri, Michelle,author.; Thomson, Melissa,author.(CARDINAL)656498;
Geodes are accessible, knowledge-building books for emerging and developing readers, aligned with the developmental stages of the Wilson Fundations foundational reading program. Each book in the collection is designed to cultivate a deep reading experience, enabling students to apply decoding skills while building knowledge in history, science, and the arts.
Subjects: Fiction.; English language; Reading (Primary) ; Reading|xPhonetic method.; English language|xPhonetics.; Reading (Primary); Reading|xPhonetic method.;

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