Leaving Children Behind

Leaving Children BehindArgues for a more valid and democratic approach to assessment and accountability. The federal government has based much of its education policies on those adopted in Texas. This book examines how "Texas style" accountability the notion that decisions governing retention, promotion, and graduation should be based on a single test score fails Latina o youth and their communities. The contributors, many of them from Texas, scrutinize state policies

There have been considerable advances in welfare assessment in the past decades

explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study

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This chapter reviews advances in the use of biological control agents in the disinfection of horticultural produce

For there has never lived a people worth writing about who have not shaped out a destiny for themselves or carved out their own opportunity

and the classrooms in which they are to have their most tangible effects on teaching and learning

for nonviolent activism

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Dancing Across the Page emphasizes embodied knowledge and imagination as a basis for creative action in the world

self-knowledge