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Horton, Lowell – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1981
Explains the components of the mastery learning model and discusses the model's curricular implications and problems. Condensed from "Mastery Learning, Fastback 154," published by the Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, Bloomington, Indiana. (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design, Mastery Learning, Problems
Lewis, Arthur J.; Blalock, Carol D. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1981
Proposes locally-generated service-learning networks which will allow disadvantaged communities both to capitalize on existing resources and to develop new vehicles for education. Condensed from "Synergist," Winter 1981, pp38-41. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Community Action, Cooperative Programs
Direct linkBlack, Susan – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
In this article, the author discusses the effects of zero-tolerance policies in schools and depicts how the policies no longer make schools safe, even though many educators see them as the backbone of school discipline. A 2000 study by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) confirms that stringent zero-tolerance policies, though…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, Discipline, Minority Groups, Board of Education Policy
