Key Elements of Observing Practice
A Data Wise DVD and Facilitator’s Guide

Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, and Marcia K. Russell

Based on Data Wise and Data Wise in Action, Key Elements of Observing Practice offers insight into one of the most challenging steps in capturing data about school performance: observing and analyzing instructional practice. Available April 2010.

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Unlearned Lessons
Six Stumbling Blocks to Our Schools’ Success

By W. James Popham

Looking back over a career of more than fifty years in education, Popham identifies six key “unlearned lessons” in education and reflects on their impact on schools, teachers, and students.

Notable Education Book of 2009, American School Board Journal

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Data Wise in Action
Stories of Schools Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning

Edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett and Jennifer L. Steele

What does it look like when a school uses data wisely? Data Wise in Action, a new companion and sequel to our bestselling Data Wise, tells the stories of eight very different schools following the Data Wise process of using assessment results to improve teaching and learning.

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Collateral Damage
How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools

By Sharon L. Nichols and David C. Berliner

Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system.

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Data Wise
A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning

Edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth City, and Richard Murnane

In the wake of the accountability movement, school administrators are inundated with data about their students. How can they use this information to support student achievement? Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders.

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Assessing NCLB
Perspectives and Prescriptions

Edited by Sara Schwartz Chrismer, Shannon T. Hodge, and Debby Saintil

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Spotlight on High-Stakes Testing

From the Editors of the Harvard Education Letter

This inaugural volume of our Spotlight Series features recent Harvard Education Letter articles on testing and new reports never before published on this important topic

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