The Heart of the Matter: Using Standards and Assessment to Learn

by Beverly Falk

For too many years, in too many schools, implementing higher standards has meant using the same methods to teach more and harder content, usually unsuccessfully. With this important book, Beverly Falk challenges that thinking. She explores the complexities of assessment, accountability, and standards-based reform, and their impact on classroom practice. And by offering strategies for using standards and assessments to support meaningful learning for all students, she truly gets to the heart of the matter. Included are the tools for moving forward and using education to improve the lives of

208 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000