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Fischer, Luise; Withers, Charles W. J. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
This paper examines debates over the nature, purpose, and reform of geographical education in schools in the eighteenth-century German-speaking territories. Attention is paid to contemporaries' concerns over the cognitive content of geography -- what geography was -- and, in greater detail, to their views concerning how the subject might be…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Educational History, Course Content, Teaching Methods
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Peterson, Paul E.; Llaudet, Elena – Education Next, 2007
On July 14, 2006, the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a study that compared the performance in reading and math of 4th and 8th graders attending private and public schools. According to the NCES study, students attending private schools performed better than students attending public schools.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 8, Grade 4, Student Characteristics