Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics and accompanying CD - ROM draws from
over 20
years of the author's direct experiences with developing rubrics and performance
tasks, devising interesting ways to use rubrics as teaching tools in the classroom, employing rubrics to score
thousands of pieces
of student work for classroom and large - scale assessments, and working with teachers to make their rubrics more instructionally powerful.
Massachusetts legal aid organizations turned away nearly two - thirds
of people qualifying for civil legal assistance
over the last
year due to a lack
of funding, leaving
thousands of low - income residents without representation in cases from domestic violence to foreclosure, according to the findings
of a statewide
task force to be released Wednesday.