If we are truly to help students meet standards, we need to teach teachers how to assess their own work and its impact. This is one of the findings published in a new book, What Matters Most: Improving Student Achievement.

Over the past two years, fellows of the National Teacher Policy Institute, a professional community of full-time K-12 classroom teachers working in urban, suburban, and rural settings, have been conducting action research in their classrooms and schools to help identify issues affecting student achievement and how these relate to standards. Their studies cover such topics as adolescent literacy, parent-teacher communication, portfolio assessment, cross-age peer tutoring, and teacher retention.

In these studies, the fellows are crafting compelling designs of what needs to happen if we are truly to support students so that they reach the standards.

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