Realizing the Promise of 21st-Century Education

Joyce, a former teacher, and Calhoun, a writer and consultant who focuses on school improvement, professional development, and language arts, consider how schooling can capitalize on the development of information and communication technology and incorporate it into K-12 programs to transform traditional campus offerings into hybrids. They explain how this incorporation can change what and how students learn; the roles of platforms like the New Library, distance resources and new types of courses, and new communication tools; useful twenty-first century skills; creating and implementing new hybrid courses and studying their effects; rethinking the secondary education platform; providing equipment and ensuring access to basic software; address the literacy curriculum in all subjects; implementing formative assessment; and broadening and deepening the governance structure of schools. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)