Testing Teacher Candidates: The Role of Licensure Tests in Improving Teacher Quality

Increasingly, states are testing candidates who want to become teachers. Forty-two states require teacher candidates to pass one or more tests to earn a license. States use licensure tests for admission to teacher education, as a condition of graduation, and for the initial licensure of teachers. Failure rates on current tests are not insubstantial, particularly for racial/ethnic minority candidates. These tests have significant consequences for teacher candidates and potentially for America’s students and schools.

Strange But True, America: Weird Tales from All 50 States

Strange But True, America is a 50-state tour de force of every oddball fact missing from standard travel and history books. Richly illustrated by veteran artist Dale Crawford, the book's 101 weird tales and matching drawings are crafted to surprise. Author John Hafnor employed a deeply curious research style to unearth the little-known tales, each building to a twist ending that assures reader interest. The book pulls few punches in redefining much of America s previously unquestioned folklore.

Raising Global IQ: Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet

A groundbreaking roadmap for improving global literacy and conflict-resolution skills in middle and high schools across the United States

Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles streams ran red with blood, and the United States was truly born.

Reuploaded Thanks to Eugenius

Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War. 

• Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fields
• Written in an approachable and accessible style
• Covers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelists
• Provides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay