Social Problems

This new edition features updated coverage of domestic abuse, the debates over welfare and health care reform, and the continuing debate on issues of violent crime. Text boxes feature groups and individuals who are dedicated to working on social problems; other boxes continue coverage of global problems and solutions, and highlight other relevant issues.

Key Benefit: For the first time, this book explains how to design an assessment system that can authentically evaluate student progress in an interdisciplinary curriculum. Key Topics: It offers readers a wealth of step-by-step procedures, checklists, tables, charts, guides, worksheets, and examples of successful assessment methods -- all designed to help teachers develop an assessment system that works for their own curriculum, in their own teaching environment. The author discusses many award-winning interdisciplinary assessment programs, giving the reader a variety of concrete models of curriculum assessment practices that have already proved successful in the classroom. Market: Principals, Assistant Principals, Curriculum Coordinators, and Teachers in Middle School, Junior High, and High School. A Longwood Professional Book.