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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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Strategic Teaching Framework: Multimedia to Support Teacher Change
TL;DR: STF is a multimedia information resource designed to support teachers in metaphorically visiting 3 constructivist classrooms in which they can watch a period of instruction, get perspectives on critical attributes of the teaching as they watch, and access a rich conceptual database.
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Investigations of Exemplary Practice in High School Science and Mathematics.
Kenneth Tobin,Barry J. Fraser +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compared three exemplary teachers with colleagues from the same schools and found that the exemplary teachers used effective classroom management strategies; used a range of whole-class, small-group and seat-work activities; kept students on-task; and monitored the extent to which students understood the content to be learned.
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Libraries and the Decline of Public Purposes
TL;DR: The article ends with the argument that, if the authors forget this role and reason for being and abandon public purposes, then they are helping in the demise of the democratic public sphere and cutting away at the long-term justification for libraries.
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Homework Practices of General Education Teachers
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A Description of the Nature and Impact of Teaching Events and Forms of Beginning Teacher Assistance as Experienced by Minnesota Agricultural Education Teachers.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the nature and impact of teaching events and selected forms of assistance provided by local school district personnel to beginning agricultural education teachers, and concluded that the initial teaching experiences of beginning teachers were, indeed, impacted by selected forms and events, such as feeling in control of their program, students are respectful toward the beginning teacher, beginning teacher has self-confidence in their teaching, satisfaction is experienced after successful activities, and they see their students succeeding in their classes.
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