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Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action

Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action

Bob Broad

Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action Bob Broad, Linda Adler-Kassner, Barry Alford, Jane Detweiler, Heidi Estrem, Susanmarie Harrington, Maureen McBride, Eric Stalions, Scott Weeden. |CŞo Bob Broad Linda Adler-Kassner Barry Alford Jane ...
Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves A Second Chance at ...

Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves A Second Chance at ...

Mike Rose

I enjoyed and learned from long conversations with Linda Adler-Kassner, Rose Asara, Shannon Allen, Kathy Booth, David Charlson, Luis Chavez, Tina Christie, Linda Collins, John Conner, Becky Cox, Regina Deil-Amen, Patricia Gandara, ...
Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989–2017

Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989–2017

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Linda Adler-Kassner's work is motivated by the questions she addresses here: how “good writing” (and its inverse) is defined, assessed, and taught, by whom, and with what attendant values and ideologies. She has examined, for instance,  ...
Considering Literacy: Reading and Writing the Educational ...

Considering Literacy: Reading and Writing the Educational ...

Linda Adler-Kassner

Showing the important connection between education and literacy, this collection of writing assignments and readings encourage readers to think about their experiences in college.
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition: Threshold Concepts ...

Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition: Threshold Concepts ...

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Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies Linda Adler-Kassner, Elizabeth Wardle. Naming What We Know Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies CLASSR00M EDITION ELITED EY LINDAADLER-KASSNER AND ELIZABETH WARDLE Naming ...
Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies

Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies

Linda Adler-Kassner

The first part of the book defines and describes thirty-seven threshold concepts of the discipline in entries written by some of the field’s most active researchers and teachers, all of whom participated in a collaborative wiki discussion ...
The Activist WPA: Changing Stories About Writing and Writers

The Activist WPA: Changing Stories About Writing and Writers

Linda Adler-Kassner

In The Activist WPA, she makes a case for developing a more integrated vision of outreach, English education, and writing program administration.
Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for ...

Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for ...

Linda Adler-Kassner

My English Department colleague Edward Zlotkowski challenged the provost to put a human face on the students' education by supporting a program that would make community service part of the curriculum. Friedman agreed, and Zlotkowski  ...
Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning

Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning

Linda Adler-Kassner

Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning is grounded in the best of writing assessment research, and focuses on how to communicate it effectively to publics beyond academe.
How to Prove There Is a God: Mortimer J. Adler's Writings ...

How to Prove There Is a God: Mortimer J. Adler's Writings ...

Mortimer Adler

The book includes a transcript of one of Adler’s appearances on William Buckley’s Firing Line, Adler’s revealing interview with Edward Wakin, the exchange of views on natural theology between Adler and Owen Gingerich, and John ...
Something about the Author

Something about the Author

Lisa Kumar

... photograph. Courtesy of Irving Adler. / Adler, Irving, and Joyce Adler, photograph. Courtesy of Irving Adler. BECHARD, MARGARET I Cohen, Santiago, illustrator. From an illustration in My Mom Married the Principal, by Margaret Bechard.
How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of ...

How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of ...

Mortimer J. Adler

Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a ''philosopher for everyman.'' In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as ''What is love?
The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: The general ...

The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: The general ...

Alfred Adler

Appendix. C. Adler. and. Socrates: Similarities. and. Differences1. By Henry T. Stein, Ph.D. Introductory Remarks Upon discovering the Socratic method in Plato's writings Benjamin Franklin wrote: "I was charm'd with it, adopted it, dropt my ...
Biographical Dictionary of American Educators

Biographical Dictionary of American Educators

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Dennis G. Wiseman ADLER, Cyrus. B. September 13, 1863, Van Buren, Arkansas, to Samuel and Sarah (Sulzberger) Adler. M. September 1905 to Racie Friedenwald. Ch. one. D.April?, 1940, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cyrus Adler was an ...
How to Think About God

How to Think About God

Mortimer J. Adler

Dr. Adler, in his discussion, extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas.
Sweet Child of Mine: How I Lost My Son to Guns N' Roses

Sweet Child of Mine: How I Lost My Son to Guns N' Roses

Deanna Adler

Sweet Child of Mine is the life story of Deanna Adler, mother of Steven Adler, the original drummer for Guns N' Roses.
Electronic Resources: Use and User Behavior

Electronic Resources: Use and User Behavior

Linda S Katz

“A classification of software components commonly used in geographic information systems,” In Donna J. Peuquet and Duane F. Marble, ed. Introductory Readings ... BIBLIOGRAPHY Adler, Prudence S. & Donna P. Koepp. (1992). “ Association ...
One Unhappy Horse

One Unhappy Horse

C. S. Adler

C. S. Adler. With thanks to Mary Ann Adamcin, ranch owner and lover of quarter horses extraordinaire. She cared enough to patiently correct the horse-related material in this book to make sure the author got it right. Thanks also to my ...
Angels and Us

Angels and Us

Mortimer Jerome Adler

Dr. Adler takes an engaging look at the various images and hierarchies of angels ( including guardian angels), speculating on the existence of these creatures and the ways in which they have been viewed as objects of religious belief and ...
Midnight Amethyst

Midnight Amethyst

Linda Austin

Linda Austin. Linda Austin Copyright © 2014 by Linda Austin. Library of Congress Control.
Platonism and Positivism in Psychology

Platonism and Positivism in Psychology

Mortimer Jerome Adler

Today they are in less agreement than ever. In this classic text, originally published as What Man Has Made of Man, Mortimer J. Adler goes to the root of the problem.
Aristotle for Everybody

Aristotle for Everybody

Mortimer J. Adler

Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler.
Campingly Yours: A Heartwarming Journey of a Lifetime at ...

Campingly Yours: A Heartwarming Journey of a Lifetime at ...

Thomas C. Adler

Seamlessly woven with wisdom and wit, Thomas C. Adler's heartfelt memoir blends forty-five years of summer camp with a lifetime of love.
The Charmers: A Novel

The Charmers: A Novel

Elizabeth Adler

A YOUNG WOMAN ARRIVES IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE ON EARTH ONLY TO FIND THAT NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS IN THE CHARMERS, AN EMOTIONALLY CHARGED THRILLER FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELIZABETH ADLER On the narrow coastal strip in the ...
Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas

Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas

Mortimer Jerome Adler

Continuing his exploration of the substance of a basic education, Mortimer J. Adler examines the inherent values of various art forms and considers their significance within a well-rounded curriculum.
1993

1993

Patt Leonard

Adler, Emanuel, ed. The International Practice of Arms Control. Contributions by Emanuel Adler, Thomas C. Schelling, Paul Doty, Robert R. Bowie, Lawrence Freedman, Johan Jorgen Hoist, Catherine M. Kelleher, A. A Kokoshin, Joseph S.
The Power of Ideology: The Quest for Technological Autonomy ...

The Power of Ideology: The Quest for Technological Autonomy ...

Emanuel Adler

In this prodigiously researched book, Emanuel Adler addresses the hotly contested issue of how developing nations can emerge from the economic and technological tutelage of the developed world.

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