Describes the commercial ghostwriting of academic papers and delineates ways in which teachers and administrators can combat this type of plagiarism on college campuses. (KS)

With the advent of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, virtually every school in America is expected to meet high academic standards in the face of declining resources. The requirements to meet these standards are rising as funding decreases, and little help is available to schools. "Strength-Based Teaching" is intended to fill that…

The National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996) present a vision where students are active learners who use inquiry and who create products to represent their emergent understandings. However, educators may find it challenging both to assess student achievement and to communicate students achievement effectively to educational stakeholders.…

"Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators" is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess. The relationship of chess to academic and humanistic educational goals is convincingly illustrated as curriculum and psychological theories from John D. McNeil, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Howard Gardner…

This Northwest Teacher is a journal that is devoted to rigorous and imaginative learning. In the Winter 2001 issue, articles include: (1) "Standards and the Impulse for Human Betterment" (Denise Jarrett Weeks); (2) "Teachers Taking Charge of Change" (Suzie Boss); (3) "Using the Standards To Illuminate Big Ideas in Science" (Jennifer Stepanek); (4)…

The Arkansas social studies standards reflect the integrated field of the social studies as well as the major concepts and skills of the primary disciplines within the social studies. Five strands and numerous content standards provide a broad conceptual framework that teachers can use to organize integrated social studies units for the lower…

This guide was developed to aid educators in meeting the required essential learning skills for their students as listed in the National Science Education Standards. This document suggests ways in which Project WILD activities can fit into their lesson plans and be used to meet these science standards, and provides correlation tables for Project…

The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) has proposed a set of social studies guidelines to direct the manner in which teachers function within classrooms. This paper questions not whether there should be standards, but which standards. The paper first discusses the quest for certitude, noting that a teacher is not a farmer who tends…

This book has helped thousands of math teachers envision what can happen if they implement the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards. It reveals that with the right teaching strategies and curricula, students can become confident, creative, and actively involved in the math process and can actually think like mathematicians.…

This document, from "The Teacher's Desk Reference to Standards and Performance Indicators for Curriculum Planning and Unit Development," is part of the Delaware Department of Education's ongoing efforts to provide assistance and support to local school districts in their development of a standards-based curriculum. This document explains…

The success of standards-based education systems depends on two elements: strong standards and assessments that measure what the standards expect. States that have, or adopt, test-based accountability programs claim that their tests are aligned to their standards. But there has been, up to now, no independent methodology for checking alignment.…

This document is an addendum to the "Opportunity-to-Learn Standards for Music Instruction" published by the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) in 1994. The addendum is meant to provide specific guidance to music teachers, administrators, and other decision makers who must determine how to take advantage of new technologies in the…

This study is an investigation of the responses of four Colorado school districts to a set of standards-based education (SBE) policy instruments that originated from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the state of Colorado, and the federal government. The paper first describes Colorado standards-based mathematics reform policy…

This document compiles information about 13 comprehensive mathematics curriculum programs that were developed specifically to address the recommendations of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM) Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. Three of the programs are elementary programs, five are for middle school,…