Our Teen Age Boys and Girls by Lester and Alice Crow. McGraw-Hill Book Company. 353 pp. $3.00

This article critique reflects on “Standards for a New Century: Educating U.S. Students to Compete in the Global Economy,” which was published in 2009 in the Carnegie Reporter, a publication of The Carnegie Corporation of New York. The article, written by Carnegie staff writer Karen Theroux, explained the need for Common Core State Standards, one of the Obama administration's educational reforms. This critique analyzes Theroux's article from the perspective of an educational researcher and evaluates Theroux's responsible use of research while informing readers about the Common Core State Standards reform. By analyzing four major concerns, this critique illustrates the author's misuse of research, therefore, informing readers about the reform in a biased manner.     

Secondary Schools for American Youth by L. A. Williams. American Book Company. 531 pp. $3.25

Poetry and Its Enjoyment. Thomas H. Briggs, Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1957. 322 pp., $4.00.

Developing a Curriculum for Modern Living, Revised and Enlarged, by Florence Stratemeyer, Hamden Forkner, Margaret McKim, and A. Harry Passow. Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1957. 740 pp. $5.50.

Guidance and Counseling in the Classroom by Dugald S. Arbuckle. Allyn and Bacon, Inc. 397 pp. $5.00.

Helping Parents Understand Their Child's School by Grace Langdon and Irving W. Stout. Prentice-Hall, Inc. 494 pp. $5.00.

Making Better Readers by Ruth Strang and Dorothy Kendall Bracken. D. C. Heath and Company. 367 pp. $4.75.

Measurement and Evaluation for the Secondary-School Teacher by Georgia Sachs Adams and Theodore L. Torgerson. The Dryden Press. 637 pp. $5.75.

Music in the Elementary School by Robert E. Nye and Vernice T. Nye. Prentice-Hall, Inc. 279 pp., $4.25.

School Public Relations by Arthur B. Moehlman and James A. van Zwoll, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 556 pp. $6.00.

Supervision as Co-operative Action by Muriel Crosby. Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. 330 pp. $3.50.

Teaching the Disorderly Pupil in Elementary and Secondary School by Norma E. Cutts and Nicholas Moseley, Longmans, Green and Co. 184 pp. $1.90.

Why Teach? by D. Louise Sharp, Henry Holt and Company, New York. 240 pp. $4.00.

The Teacher's Personal Development by William F. Bruce, and A. John Holden, Jr. Henry Holt and Company, 346 pp. $4.25.

Education and Philosophy, the Yearbook of Education, 1957 by George Z. F. Bereday and Joseph A. Lauwerys. World Book Company. 578 pp. $8.50. Education and Philosofhy is the 1957

The Psychology of Careers by Donald E. Super. Harper &; Brothers, 353 pp. $5.75.

Health for Modern Living by H. Frederick Kilander, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 475 PP. $4.95.

Smoking and Its Effects by Sidney Russ. The Macmillan Co. 141 pp. $1.95.

Handbook of Speech Pathology, L. E. Travis, editor, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1088 pp. $12.00.