"Provides a coherent account of how schooling can and should relate to learning beyond the classroom walls"--

Drop down box contains the different 11 different standards available: comprehensive health, dance, drama and theater arts, mathematics, music, physical education, reading writing and communicating, science, social studies, visual arts, and world languages. Once the content area is chosen, another drop down box appears to provide access to grade level standards.

Colorado assessments are changing in order to accurately assess student mastery of the new Colorado Academic Standards.

"This book explores the central role community colleges play in American social justice. The U.S. has long-standing social and cultural structures that perpetuate inequality along race, ethnicity and income lines. The primary role of American community colleges is to disrupt these structures on behalf of the students we serve. In this sense, community colleges are called to play a subversive role in contemporary society, but it is a good kind of subversion....