Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for October, 2007

• Check Out This Great New Book
  Posted October 29, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

   Stop high-stakes testing : an appeal to America’s conscience / Dale D. Johnson … [et al.] Author: Johnson, Dale D ISBN: 9780742559370 (cloth : alk. paper) Call Number: LB 3051 .S856 2008  

• College Navigator Newsflash
  Posted October 19, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

  Since its creation in 2001, the Department of Education College Opportunities Online (COOL) website has helped hundreds of thousands of students and families learn about colleges and universities. Now, COOL’s successor, called College Navigator and located at http://collegenavigator.ed.gov offers consumers even more information in an easy-to-use format. College Navigator is a free consumer information tool [...]

• Haul it away
  Posted October 3, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

  Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. — George Lorimer

• Great New Teaching Resources from Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
  Posted October 2, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

  Language Arts: Language Resource Centers is a gateway to 15 centers that support foreign language instruction. Led by nationally and internationally recognized language professionals, the centers create language-learning materials, offer professional development workshops, and conduct research. Some centers concentrate on specific language areas; others focus on foreign languages in general. (Department of Education) http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1966 Children’s [...]