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BOOK REVIEWS

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100 Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned Along the Way. (10/06)

A Larger Sense of Purpose: Higher Education and Society. (02/06)

African American Lives. (03/06)

Authentic Assessment for Early Childhood Intervention: Best Practices. (12/07)

Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories (01/08)

Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld. (03/06)

Breaking Through: Transforming Urban School Districts. (04/06)

Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment: A Handbook of Prevention and Intervention (04/07)

Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom (12/07)

Classroom Assessment and Grading That Work (04/07)

Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts Amer-ica’s Schools (10/07)

The Congress of the United States: A Student Companion (01/07)

Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (02/07)

The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (10/07)

Does God Belong in Public Schools? (01/08)

The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know (03/07)

The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880 (03/07)

First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America (10/06)

Garden Genetics: Teaching with Edible Plants (10/06)

Getting Started with English Language Learners: How Educators Can Meet the Challenge (05/07)

Grace Abounding: The Core Knowledge Anthology of African-American Literature, Music, and Art (01/07)

Handbook of Early Literacy (05/06)

History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling Over the Last 200 Years (03/07)

Improving Literacy in America: Guidelines from Research (02/06)

The Islamic World: Past and Present (03/06)

Jamestown, the Buried Truth (09/07)

Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality. (02/06)

Landmarks of American Women's History (05/06)

Learning from Latino Teachers (12/07)

Letters to a Young Teacher (11/07)

The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market. (02/06)

Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More (01/06)

Our Supreme Court: A History with 14 Activities (01/07)

Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education. (12/07)

Pedagogy and the Practice of Science. (02/06)

Planet Earth (04/07)

Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons from Exemplary Programs (10/06)

Priorities in Practice: The Essentials of Mathematics, Grades 7-12 (04/07)

Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience (01/08)

School Choice and Diversity: What the Evidence Says. (04/06)

School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity (02/06)

Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential (05/07)

The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America’s Selective Colleges and Universities. (10/06)

The Strategic Teacher: Selecting the Right Research-Based Strategy for Every Lesson (12/07)

Stories of Our Fathers: A Multi-Generational Narrative of the Gazan Family Through Sorrow and Triumph (04/06)

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education (10/07)

Time America: An Illustrated History (12/07)

Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers—and How You Can Too (09/07)

Understanding the Nature of Autism and Asperger’s Disorder: Forty Years of Clinical Practice and Pioneering Research. (03/06)

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (10/07)

University Presidents as Moral Leaders. (02/06)

Voices from the Spectrum: Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, People with Autism, and Professionals Share Their Wisdom (05/06)

Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy (02/07)

Weather Projects for Young Scientists: Experiments and Science Fair Ideas (05/07)

What They Didn’t Say: A Book of Misquotations (03/07)

White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms: A Guide to Building Inclusive Schools, Promoting High Expectations, and Eliminating Racism (10/07)