In 2012, the National Academies produced a number of videos based on reports released this past year. Watch the seven videos below, and please share these great resources for teaching and communicating.
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7 New Books In Education, Hydrology, Climate Change & Hybrid Vehicles
Our featured publication of the new books this week is in the topic of education and has already found a good deal of popularity thanks to this article in Education Week. There’s six more books (five with free PDFs) new to nap.edu this week, dealing with subjects such as water and hydrology, testing, and conflict and security issues.
Featured Publication
Preparing Teachers: Building Evidence for Sound Policy (prepublication)
Teachers make a difference. The success of any plan for improving educational outcomes depends on the teachers who carry it out and thus on the abilities of those attracted to the field and their preparation. Yet there are many questions about how teachers are being prepared and how they ought to be prepared. Yet, teacher preparation is often treated as an afterthought in discussions of improving the public education system.
Preparing Teachers addresses the issue of teacher preparation with specific attention to reading, mathematics, and science. The book evaluates the characteristics of the candidates who enter teacher preparation programs, the sorts of instruction and experiences teacher candidates receive in preparation programs, and the extent that the required instruction and experiences are consistent with converging scientific evidence. Preparing Teachers also identifies a need for a data collection model to provide valid and reliable information about the content knowledge, pedagogical competence, and effectiveness of graduates from the various kinds of teacher preparation programs.
Federal and state policy makers need reliable, outcomes-based information to make sound decisions, and teacher educators need to know how best to contribute to the development of effective teachers. Clearer understanding of the content and character of effective teacher preparation is critical to improving it and to ensuring that the same critiques and questions are not being repeated 10 years from now.
All New Publications
Best Practices for State Assessment Systems Part I: Summary of a Workshop (prepublication)
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Language Diversity, School Learning, and Closing Achievement Gaps: A Workshop Summary (prepublication)
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Review of the WATERS Network Science Plan (prepublication)
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The Use of Title 42 Authority at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: A Letter Report (prepublication)
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National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces: Letter Report (final)
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Transitions to Alternative Transportation Technologies–Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (final)