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Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success

4 reviews
Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children

National Academies Press, 1999

Excellent Kindergarten Resource
As a Kindergarten teacher, I have found the Starting Out Right book to be one of the best resources that I have ever used in my classroom. The text is very easy to read and very user friendly. The activities are great for any teacher making the changes in education. I only wish that I had found this book years ago. I would recommend this book for any teacher who is teaching reading ...

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century

3 reviews
Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine

National Academies Press, 2001

Essential Reading for Everyone in Health Care
If you are in anyway involved in health care, this is essential reading. Physicians, hospital administrators, purchasers, health plan execs, and grad students must immediately put this on the top of their reading list. Lives may depend on it. In it, the highly respected Institute of Medicine builds a powerful case for how the current health care system is severely broken and how it has produced ...

National Science Education Standards

1 review
National Research Council

National Academies Press, 1995

superb book
This book gave a comprehensive overview of the issues facing national science standards. Not only did it go over the history of standards, but it delved into the complex issues of teacher participation, community support, and school support equipment. I really enjoyed the organization of the book. it was divided into very coherent and logical arrangement, which enabled easy understanding ...

Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

2 reviews
Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, National Research Council, ...

National Academies Press, 1998

Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
(Please add this from the description from the publisher.) While most children learn to read fairly well, there remain many young Americans whose futures are imperiled because they do not read well enough to meet the demands of our competitive, technology-driven society. This book explores the problem within the context of social, historical, cultural, and biological factors. Recommendations ...

Nutrient Requirements of Horses: Sixth Revised Edition (Animal Nutrition Series)

3 reviews
Committee on Nutrient Requirements of Horses, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 2007

www.HealthyHay4Horses.com book review
This book is a must-read book for anyone concerned about nutrition requirements for horses, as it addresses every element of nutrition that is commonly of concern. Some issues that the book covers are: carbs, proteins, minerals, feed additives, ration formulation, and water quality. Issues concerning donkeys and other equids are also addressed. I did not find it hard to comprehend, but is very ...

From Neurons to Neighborhoods : The Science of Early Childhood Development
Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, Youth, and Families Board on Children, ...

National Academies Press, 2000

How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "expertise." The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the first months and years-have reached the popular media. How can we use our burgeoning knowledge to assure the well-being of all young children, for their own sake, as well as for the sake of our ...

To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System

2 reviews
Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine

National Academies Press, 2000

Everyone should read this book
This eye opening book exposes the dangers of the medical health care system in the United States. Tens of thousands of people die and are injured every year due to doctors' errors, administrative foul ups, misdiagnoses, and incorrect prescriptions. The book gives general solutions for the system as a whole and advice to the individual to help you protect yourself when you are being treated ...

Educating Children with Autism

10 reviews

National Academies Press, 2001

Condensed, authoritative resource for families, educators, administrators & caregivers
I bought this book after reading most of it on-live via the library. It's one of those books that brings a lot of information together, and it has the authoritative seal of the Council for Exceptional Children. I bought it because my son's school administrators and staff are living in the Dark Ages. The administrative law judge needs to be enlightened regarding the current professional ...

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition

20 reviews
Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning with additional material from the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 2000

How People Learn
My academic advisor at the University of Washington's iSchool suggested I read this along with "Team-Based Learning". I never thought I could get so excited about a book on learning from the National Research Council! Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in research regarding neural processes, teaching /learning, psychology, and the natural desire to learn. Thank you to the authors ...

Science, Evolution, and Creationism

15 reviews
National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine

National Academies Press, 2008

A Brief, But Richly, Illustrated Guide Explaining Why Evolution Is Science and Creationism Isn't
"Science, Evolution and Creationism", published jointly by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, does an admirable job in explaining succinctly why evolution is science and creationism isn't. In less than 70 pages, it summarizes the key evidence on behalf of biological evolution, and dismisses the claims of creationists, including Intelligent Design advocates, noting ...

Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology, National Academy of Engineering, ...

National Academies Press, 2007

In a world where advanced knowledge is widespread and low-cost labor is readily available, U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have begun to erode. A comprehensive and coordinated federal effort is urgently needed to bolster U.S. competitiveness and pre-eminence in these areas. This congressionally requested report by a pre-eminent committee makes four recommendations along with 20 implementation actions that federal ...

Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Program Assessment

National Academies Press, 2008

All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or 'mine' personal data - such as phone records or Web sites visited - should be required to evaluate the programs' effectiveness, lawfulness, and impacts on privacy. A framework is offered that agencies can use to evaluate such information-based programs, both classified and unclassified. The book urges Congress to re-examine existing privacy law to assess how privacy can be ...

Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology

2 reviews
Committee on Technological Literacy, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 2002

Technically Speaking
This book should be standard reading within all vocational and Career/Technical Education coursework. In addition, the integration of Technological Standards with Academic standards is a must for all educators (academic and CTE)concerned with providing rigorous and relevant instruction to secondary and post-secondary level students. This book lays out the arguements for Technological Literacy ...

How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice

1 review
Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 2000

Teachers should know how people learn
Perhaps this may be preaching to the choir, but the people who are reading this book probably already know how people learn. The people who need to read this book are the bad, burned out teachers who fail in their role as educators. With that in mind, I believe that this book has a lot to say to many. Unfortunately, what it said, I already knew. Research done by John Dewey and Howard Gardner ...

Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics
Mathematics Learning Study Committee, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 2001

Adding it All Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during these critical years. The committee identifies five interdependent components of mathematics proficiency in the domain of number and describes how students develop these proficiencies. With examples and illustrations, the book presents a ...

Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8

1 review
Kindergarten through Eighth Grade Committee on Science Learning

National Academies Press, 2007

Good but dense
I found out about this study from a Boston Globe editorial, so I went to the web to read it. The study makes some great points, but it's cloaked in edu-speak and is written like a peer-reviewed article. This book could have much more impact if it was written with punchier conclusions and frankly simpler language. Does anyone know of a book that does this?

Ready, Set, Science!: Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classrooms

1 review
Sarah Michaels, Andrew Shouse, ...

National Academies Press, 2007

Extremely useful for practitioners
Has great case studies that really set the bar high. Also, I like how it builds on previous studies, but brings fresh perspectives. I really like how they deal with "children's misconceptions" as something positive and a step towards building understanding of the world.

How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom

1 review
Committee on How People Learn: A Targeted Report for Teachers, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 2004

Concise and Useful Approached to Teaching
How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom by M. Suzanne Donovan, John D. Bransford (National Academies Press) This book has its roots in the report of the Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School (National Research Council, 1999, National Academy Press). That report presented an illuminating review of ...

Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning
Committee on the Development of an Addendum to the National Science Education Standards on Scientific Inquiry, National Research Council

National Academies Press, 2000

Humans, especially children, are naturally curious. Yet, people often balk at the thought of learning science - the 'eyes glazed over' syndrome. Teachers may find teaching science a major challenge in an era when science ranges from the hardly imaginable quark to the distant, blazing quasar. "Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards" is the book that educators have been waiting for - a practical guide to teaching inquiry and teaching ...

Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment
Committee on the Foundations of Assessment, Board on Testing and Assessment, ...

National Academies Press, 2001

Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improving the educational process, we need a way to find out what works and what doesn't work as well. Educational assessment seeks to determine just how well students are learning and is an integral part of our quest for improved education. The nation ...

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