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Munson, Lynne; Bornfreund, Laura – American Educator, 2010
This article presents the authors' critique of lessons proposed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21). The authors initiate a discussion about content that they hope will play out in schoolhouses and statehouses across the country. They take on a different task: they present a handful of lesson ideas from P21 that could enhance studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Rossuck, Jennifer – English Journal, 1997
Describes how a course on censorship taught at an all-girls high school in Tacoma, Washington, drew on current event controversies to initiate discussion. Outlines the course's four units and uses Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" to frame course questions. (TB)
Descriptors: Censorship, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Descriptions, High Schools
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Ellenbogen, Charles M. – English Journal, 1997
Describes how a teacher used Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's play "Inherit the Wind," dealing with the evolution versus creation controversy, as a medium for teaching censorship issues in a Nashville, Tennessee junior high school Language Arts and Literature class. (TB)
Descriptors: Censorship, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Creationism, Drama
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Price, Robert V.; Repman, Judi – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1995
Reviews instructional design models; discusses characteristics of distance education in higher education via interactive television; and presents a nine-step instructional design model designed specifically for college course delivery via interactive television. Course goals, content analysis, performance objectives, learner characteristics,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Course Objectives, Distance Education
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Ramirez, Alicia D.; Spandel, Victoria L. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
The purposes, development, characteristics, target population needs, appropriate materials, and teacher qualifications of an Occupational English as a Second Language Program (OESL) are presented. OESL is a component of bilingual education that utilizes open entry and exit and a competency-based individualized instructional approach. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Bilingual Education, Competency Based Education, Course Content