Language Arts - The Whys, Whats, and Hows of Literacy Evaluation, Dec 1991

This article looks at what is said about portfolio assessment and what actually happened with it in one school. The observations help us move forward in our attempts to make evaluation the best it can be.

Blackburn School’s experience with portfolio assessment shows how such an approach to evaluation affects both children and teachers.

Typically, we think of writing assessment as relating to children’s written and oral language. But there’s more to it than that—as this article shows.

A reflective practitioner thinks about how she can become an even better teacher—and helps us to do so, too.

Beginning with Books has been very successful at promoting family literacy through a variety of programs described here.