Smart Start II explores how standards are bringing about changes in elementary schools, and it conveys what standards-based education in elementary schools looks and feels like.
Patte Barth is senior associate at The Council for Basic Education, a national nonprofit organization devoted to the principle of universal, tax-supported, democratic public education. Ruth Mitchell, Ph.D., is principal partner of standards-based professional development of The Education Trust (American Association for Higher Education) and a prominent educational consultant. Ruth was formerly a writing teacher, an experience that fuels her desire to see all students able to read and write in their early years.