Intriguing New Resource: USAFacts !

Teachers of middle and high school social studies, check out this new
and intriguing resource: USAFacts !

"USAFacts is a new data-driven portrait of the American population, our government's finances, and government's impact on society.  We are a non-partisan, not-for-profit civic initiative and have no political agenda or commercial motive.  We provide this information as a free public service and are committed to maintaining and expanding it in the future.  We rely exclusively on publicly available government data sources.  We don't make judgments or prescribe specific policies.  Whether government monty is spent wisely or not, whether our quality of lie is improving or getting worse - that's for you to decide.  We hope to spur serious, reasoned, and informed debate on the purpose and functions of government.  Such debate is vital to our democracy.  We hope that USAFacts will make a modest contribution toward building consensus and finding solutions."

Contradiction, Paradox and Irony: The World of Classroom Management

This is a thoughtful essay on classroom management by Barbara McEwan Landau.  It's an excerpt from the chapter “Contradiction, Paradox, and Irony: The World of Classroom Management", in Butchart, R. and McEwan, B. Ed.’s, Classroom Discipline in American Schools: Problems and Possibilities for Democratic Education, 1998, Albany NY: SUNY Press.

Practical Tools for Formative Assessment

Here's a great resource:
  60 Tools for Formative Assessment
(compiled by K Lambert - OCPS Curriculum Services)