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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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Appropriate and inappropriate forms of testing, assessment, and accountability
TL;DR: This paper argued that the appropriateness of testing, or any other form of assessment, as a solution to such problems should be guided by one primary motivation: whether it enables all students to function at the highest possible level in the wider world.
Achievement in literacy and numeracy by Australian 14 year-olds, 1975-1998
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined student achievement scores on tests of reading comprehension and mathematics from studies carried out between 1975 to 1998 and which involved young people in Australian schools, and reported growing differences among Australian schools as well as among individual students along socioeconomic lines.
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The New Push for Excellence: Widening the Schism between Regular and Special Education
TL;DR: The national reports are an impediment to the merger of special and regular education because accountability demands make classroom teachers less willing to take responsibility for hard-to-teach children.
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Financial Scandals: Another Clarion Call for Educational Reform— A Historical Perspective
TL;DR: The authors provide a brief review and analysis of the primary external criticisms over the last century of accounting education and selected responses by accounting professionals and academics, and demonstrate the constancy of criticism and the failure of any criticism to effect meaningful change in the delivery of accounting courses.
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The Changing Role of Interest Groups in Education: Nationalization and the New Politics of Education Productivity:
TL;DR: The politics of education in the United States has changed in recent decades from one approximating professionally dominated subgovernments to issue networks, which are characterized by more ideational, macropolitical interest groups as well as shifting and unstable coalitions as discussed by the authors.
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