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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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The Influence of Standards on K-12 Teaching and Student Learning: A Research Synthesis.
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A second look at conflicting conceptions of curriculum
TL;DR: In this paper, a second look at conflicting conceptions of curriculum is presented, with a focus on the theory-into-practice (T2P) approach. But the curriculum is not defined as a set of rules.
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Media representations of national and international standardized testing in the Israeli education system
Miri Yemini,Noa Gordon +1 more
TL;DR: This article applied discourse analysis to the coverage of national and international standardized examinations within Israel's public education system, finding that most of the media attention was devoted to international examinations, while national examinations were covered in a more limited yet critical way, perceived as unnecessary and even dubious.
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Give Peace a Chance: The Diminution of Peace in Global Education in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.
TL;DR: This article surveyed the literature on peace and global education in secondary schools to explore the position of peace education within the global education field and found that the nature of both PE and GLE in the school curriculum has changed.
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