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Certain contemporary technical advancements and social developments can influence curriculum content and delivery. Multidisciplinary conceptions and multidimensional modes of curriculum implementation may replace subject...
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Summarizes the contents of 13 national commission reports from the 1960s to the 1990s, highlighting recent trends in course and graduation requirements, grade inflation, achievement test scores, international comparisons...
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Compares the effectiveness of public and private schools by analyzing trends in enrollments, organization, and graduation and college entrance. Policymakers need to address the growing public willingness to consider priv...
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Discusses federal involvement in education (control of public schools, federal funding, federal regulations, increase in regulatory behavior, specification of funding for vocational education, and judicial involvement). ...
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Differential instruction approaches appropriate for teaching students with differing ethnic and racial backgrounds are a key to developing effective approaches to multicultural education. Important and frequently discuss...
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Lists 10 curriculum innovations and discusses reasons why they are not used extensively today. Reviews current curricular trends in career, environmental, ethnic, bicultural/bilingual, metric/calculator, sex, nonsexist, ...
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Reports on the size and ethnic composition of 66 public school Boards of Education school systems enrolling 50,000 or more students. Presents information on the number of minorities and women on these boards and the occu...
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The author examines the role of teacher education programs and state certification agencies in determining who is academically and emotionally qualified to teach. He discusses some changes in education and certification ...
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The authors review compensatory education programs, summarize studies of their effectiveness, and conclude that such programs can be effective--although they must be accompanied by increased opportunity in the society as...
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Curriculum innovations and trends are examined in past, present, and future perspectives. Past curriculum innovations include team teaching, educational television, and computer assisted instruction. Present innovations ...