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A nation at risk: the imperative for educational reform
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Because of the extraordinary clarity and importance of the Commission's Report, the editors of the Communica t ions decided to reprint the Report's main section in its entirety and present it to you here.Abstract:
released a remarkab le report, A Nation at Risk. This Report has s t imulated in the media considerable discussion about the problems in our schools, speculation about the causes, and ass ignment of blame. Astonishingly, f e w of the media reports have focused on the specific f indings and recommendat ions of the Commission. A lmos t none of the med ia reports tells that the Commission i tsel f re frained f rom speculation on causes and f rom assignment of blame. Because of the extraordinary clarity and importance of the Commission's Report, the editors of the Communica t ions decided to reprint the Report's main section in its entirety. We are p leased to present it to you here.read more
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Feminism and Professionalism in Teaching and Educational Administration
TL;DR: Feminist theory, methodology, and research applications are discussed in this article, where emphasis is placed on the relationship of feminism and professionalism and the role of feminist perspectives in transforming teaching and educational administration.
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Dewey’s “Science as Method” a Century Later: Reviving Science Education for Civic Ends
TL;DR: The authors revisited the speech and examined the development of science education in the United States in the years since that address, arguing that there is a need to recover the rapidly fading civic aims of science teaching, which requires greater attention to the methods of science.
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Rule-based expert systems to support step-by-step guidance in algebraic problem solving: The case of the tutor PAT2Math
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TL;DR: This paper describes the expert system (ES) module of an Algebra ITS, called PAT2Math, and describes how it was reduced from O(nd) to O(d), where n is the number of rules in the knowledge base, by implementing some meta-rules that aim at inferring the operations students applied in order to produce a step.
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Knowledge Use and School Improvement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present survey and case data from a study of knowledge use in United States schools which suggest that a combination of mandates and public pressure, and support for school-designed efforts to improve may be an effective alternative to top-down change.
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Referents for Changing a Science Curriculum: A Case Study of One Teacher's Change in Beliefs.
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