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Download full textMarkley, Eric; Poliakoff, Michael – American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2011
Maine is blessed with universities that have records of significant achievement. The seven campuses of the University of Maine System (UMS) together educated over 23,000 students (full-time equivalent) during the past year. But for good reason, in recent years public confidence in higher education throughout the nation has fallen. Half of the…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Higher Education, Surveys, General Education
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2004
The North Carolina End of Course (EOC) tests were initiated in response to legislation passed by the North Carolina General Assembly--the North Carolina Elementary and Secondary Reform Act of 1984. This act mandates the implementation of the Basic Education Program through the establishment of a core curriculum for all students for each content…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Testing, State Legislation, Core Curriculum
Duke, Daniel L., Ed. – Spotlight on New Learning Environments: A Journal of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Educational Design at the University of Virginia, 1998
A two-issue volume presents articles describing innovative schools, classrooms, and alternative learning arrangements found in some of today's schools. Issue one contains three articles offering glimpses of an elementary school committed to the Core Knowledge curriculum of E. D. Hirsch, a renovated school devoted to early childhood learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Core Curriculum, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
ACT, Inc., 2005
This report uses the phrase, "College Readiness" to refer in a general sense to the level of preparation a student needs to be ready to enroll and succeed--without remediation--in a credit-bearing course at a two-year or four-year institution, trade school, or technical school. Increasingly, however, college readiness also means "workplace"…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Education Work Relationship, Job Training, Core Curriculum
Seymour, Daniel – 1993
In 1991, International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation announced its commitment to work with higher education to accelerate the teaching, research, and use of quality management practices in college and university operations. Besides cash and equipment awards being offered, IBM proposed partnerships with IBM facilities to include loaned…
Descriptors: Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Core Curriculum, Educational Improvement
Henderson, Anne – Education Law Center, 2004
During the summer of 2003, a statewide committee of representative educational stakeholders on "cooperative rulemaking" was convened jointly by the Department of Education and the Education Law Center. The Supreme Court in "Abbott X" had directed the establishment of this committee to develop new regulations more consistent…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Community Involvement, Parent Role, Resource Materials
