The National Reform of Education: Overview and Outlook.

Ornstein, Allan C.

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Publication Date: 1992

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The National Reform of Education: Overview and Outlook.

Ornstein, Allan C.

NASSP Bulletin, v76 n545 p89-101 Sep 1992

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, functional illiteracy figures, and school demography. An education policy that invests in human capital and productivity and balances equality and excellence is needed. (MLH)

Descriptors: Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Excellence in Education, Human Capital, Productivity, Test Results

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials

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Language: English

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