• Syllabus
• Textbooks
  • Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III
  • IRA Electronic Bookstore
• Technology Requirements (email Professor Moorman, class listserv, On-line Community Forum)
• NCLB Assignment
• Question One
• Question Two
  

• No class (MLK Holiday)

• Submit a brief response (one paragraph) to the first class on the Online Community Forum . Respond to at least one of your classmates (due by Friday, January 14).
• Work on assignments:
  • Find and review one article about high stakes competency testing: Prepare a short (5 minute) presentation for the class. You may use any article you want, but here are some online resources:
    • NC Public Schools
    • Online Journals List #1
    • Educator's Reference Desk
    • Education Week
    • U.S. Department of Education
    • White House
    • Nochildleftbehindcom
    • National Education Association
  • Work on Position Paper
  • Check out "APA Style Essentials" and "The Citation Machine"
  • Read Linn et al., Accountability Systems: Implications of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, (pdf version only)

January 24

• Discuss Questions One and Two
• Seminar on NCLB
• Writers' Workshop

• Submit a three paragraph summary/reaction to the Linn article on the Online Community Forum . Respond to at least one of your classmates.
• Review Exam Question One and Question Two; be prepared to offer suggestions for improving the questions.
• Write a draft of your NCLB position paper.
• Make sure your five minute presentation for the class is ready.