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- What Every Parent Should Know about Schools, Standards, and High Stakes Tests
What Every Parent Should Know about Schools, Standards, and High Stakes Tests
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This concise guide for parents and community members demystifies the buzzwords that confront us all in everyday headlines: standards, tests, equity, data, accountability, adequate yearly progress, No Child Left Behind, and more. Written in a reader-friendly style by expert educator and best-selling author Donna Walker Tileston, this guide gives all parents the tools and resources they need to understand how their children are being taught as well as checklists of essential questions to ask when they need more answers than they're being given.
Topics include:
o Accessing and understanding standards and benchmarks
o Understanding how their schools use standards for teaching and testing
o Knowledge and skills their children need to be taught
o How to help their children prepare for high-stakes tests
o What to do if their schools do not make adequate yearly progress
o Putting together the questions they need to ask teachers and principals during parent conferences
o Resources for understanding the answers they receive
This well-priced book covers what every parent should know about schools today.
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