Keeping Track

Selected by the American School Board Journal as a “Must Read” book when it was first published and named one of 60 “Books of the Century” by the University of South Carolina Museum of Education for its influence on American education, this provocative, carefully documented work shows how tracking—the system of grouping students for instruction on the basis of ability—reflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps to perpetuate them. For this new edition, Jeannie Oakes has added a new Preface and a new final chapter in which she discusses the “tracking wars” of the last twenty years, wars in which Keeping Track has played a central role. From reviews of the first edition:“Should be read by anyone who wishes to improve schools.”—M. Donald Thomas, American School Board Journal“[This] engaging [book] . . . has had an influence on educational thought and policy that few works of social science ever achieve.”—Tom Loveless in The Tracking Wars“Should be read by teachers, administrators, school board members, and parents.”—Georgia Lewis, Childhood Education“Valuable. . . . No one interested in the topic can afford not to attend to it.”—Kenneth A. Strike, Teachers College Record

The man veteran Notre Dame Head Track Coach Joe Piane calls "The Gentleman Coach" shares his insights into how to succeed at track and field and cross country as an athlete and as a coach. Bob Smith has experienced track as a Central High School and University of Notre Dame athlete, then as Riley High School coach and later as Notre Dame assistant coach. From sports washout to the Olympic Trials, from student to teacher and coach, his story shows the triumph of hope and perseverance. The book is more than a memoir. It covers every aspect of the sport from the tribulations of a beginning runner to the insights of a master coach. Many area track athletes and coaches are mentioned and/or pictured in the book. The appendices give statistics for years of area and regional competitions. Joe Piane, awardwinning head track coach at the University of Notre Dame for over 30 years, has written the foreword, giving his views of track as a sport and its potential to change lives, encourage growth, and prepare a person to succeed in life.

Written over the course of 20 years by the founding editor of Gray's Sporting Journal, these 70 short pieces form a very personal and moving memoir of a thoughtful life spent in the outdoors with his growing family and a few like-minded and unforgettable characters. By the end of this book, they'll all be etched in your mind, too.

Making observations about weather and climate can help readers become more observant about the world around them and be aware about early science concepts. Weather affects children everyday. With this book, help them prepare for thunderstorms and natural disasters by helping them identify the normal range of expected weather. This nonfiction book is paired with the fiction book, My Uncle Is a Weatherman, for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.

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This volume emerges from a partnership between the American Federation of Teachers and the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. The partnership brought together researchers and expert teachers for intensive dialogue sessions focusing on what each community knows about effective mathematical learning and instruction. The chapters deal with the research on, and conceptual analysis of, specific arithmetic topics (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, and fractions) or with overarching themes that pervade the early curriculum and constitute the links with the more advanced topics of mathematics (intuition, number sense, and estimation). Serving as a link between the communities of cognitive researchers and mathematics educators, the book capitalizes on the recent research successes of cognitive science and reviews the literature of the math education community as well.

How many calories have you consumed today? How many steps have you taken? How stressed are you? Keeping Track is a groundbreaking book about what it means to be human in the age of big data and ubiquitous technology. Using wristbands, smart watches or simply our phones, we are now able to monitor our heart rate and blood-sugar levels, our sleep patterns and menstrual cycles, the quality of our exercise, the cost of our office lives and countless other metrics of physical and psychological well-being, including the use of technology itself. But what else might this practice of ‘living by numbers’ tells us about ourselves? The aim of self-tracking is to provide a more scientific means of self-improvement, but what are its actual effects? The idea that one's self is something to be measured, worked on and improved has been with us for a long time, but never before have we been able to pursue this goal so rigorously. In this ground-breaking book, anthropologist Natasha Schüll uses riveting stories and personal encounters to provide the first full investigation of a formerly fringe activity that in recent years has been developed, monetised and successfully transplanted by technological companies into daily mainstream life. It offers startling insights into what we think we want and what we actually need in the age of the machine.