Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of state-level testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the particular state history tests more to the fore and examine how teachers are responding to them.

New Sky takes the clear syllabus and methodoloy of the original course and adds new and exciting content to make it even more effective and motivating for both teachers and learners.

New Sky takes the clear syllabus and methodoloy of the original course and adds new and exciting content to make it even more effective and motivating for both teachers and learners.

s countries become increasingly interdependent, student populations in the United States are becoming more culturally diverse. These students’ transnational perspectives present significant challenges to teachers, but a disconnect exists between the skills teachers need and those provided to them by colleges of education.

Nonnative Speaker English Teachers: Research, Pedagogy, and Professional Growth

According to current estimates, about eighty percent of English teachers worldwide are nonnative speakers of the language. The nonnative speaker movement began a decade ago to counter the discrimination faced by these teachers and to champion their causes.