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Direct linkVelde, Christine – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2009
The Chinese economy is now a major driver of growth in the world economy. As a consequence, significant reforms were introduced which impacted on its educational systems. China is facing unprecedented pressure to produce skilled individuals to meet the demands of this rapid growth. China is in the unique position of operating in a dual system,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Free Enterprise System, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGlazer, Nathan – American Journal of Education, 1984
In the current educational reform movement, the most sobering issue is the relationship between achievement and race. None of the recent major educational reform reports face up to the reality that raising minimum standards and imposing minimum requirements simply increase the failure rate among Blacks. (CMG)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T. – Reading Teacher, 1981
Traces the history of minimum competency testing in the United States from 1890 to the present. (FL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Trends
Download full textSikula, John P.; Roth, Robert A. – 1984
This booklet discusses changes taking place in the four major processes involved in preparing and certifying teachers: national accreditation, state program approval, state certification, and teacher preparation. Some of the major issues affecting these processes, such as teacher competency testing and teaching internships, are discussed, and the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Admission Criteria, Change Agents, Educational Change
Cole, Jack N. – 1982
Arguing that educational testing has not grown with the theory and knowledge base of the reading field, this paper cites the current configuration of testing as a major contributor to the instructional stagnation, methodological back-to-basics movement, and general lack of excitement and true innovation found in classrooms and schools today. The…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Spencerport Central Schools, NY. – 1986
During the 1982-83 school year the Spencerport (New York) Central School District began a comprehensive project to study the effective schools research and its implications at all levels of a suburban school system. A leadership planning team (consisting of teachers, principals, and district personnel) participated in a series of workshops and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Annual Reports, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning
Sinclair, Robert L.; Ghory, Ward J. – 1987
This book examines the conditions for learning from the perspective of those students for whom schools are not productive and satisfying settings. Both current and desired characteristics of school environments are examined from the standpoint of their effect on marginal students. Questions probed include how difficulties begin and why individuals…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dropouts, Educational Change, Educational Environment
