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The issue of adopting information technology (IT) based education and performance-based education in schools is debated. The arguments supporting each of the education policy are presented....
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If user-friendliness is the key to widespread technological penetration, what education is needed for the high-tech world? For our nation's 281 million technology users, a liberal education trumps technology training. Li...
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Americans rate improving schools as a higher priority than lowering crime or improving the economy, but neither Republicans nor Democrats have strong proposals. Most of the money needed to improve the situation is alread...
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Examines the private sector's historic role in human capital investment, emphasizing its contemporary interest in public education and the workforce. Private sector philanthropy is currently an issue of survival to publi...
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The author questions the relevance of pedagogy as practiced in teacher education and argues that teacher preparation should be centered in the academic departments of colleges and universities. (MT)...
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The shortcomings of America's public schools ripple through society at large. When schools are viewed as producers of human capital, their product is individuals prepared for additional education and the world of work. T...
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Attempts to explain why, despite its importance and expensiveness, education is generally neglected in the American press. Suggests that a major reason might be a lack of reliable outcome measures in education, which lim...
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Describes the Committee for Economic Development; its interest in education; its conviction that carefully designed, high quality education will enhance the nation's economic development; and its reasons for recommending...
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Assessing the Reagan Administration's first 3 years in office, this paper evaluates the administration's inability to enact its education agenda, which included reductions of federal regulations, cuts in education spendi...
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The quality of elementary and secondary education was the most important issue for the American public in the 1980s. The nation's economic health, social well-being, political viability, and international standing depend...
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The author examines private schools: their origins, the current rise in new private schools and private school enrollment, student ethnic and racial characteristics, private education function, the federal government's r...
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The relationship between the decline of value-centered education in the 1960s and 1970s and the decline of academic standards is discussed. The question of the moral dimensions of learning and how values and the transfer...