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Download full textTexas Education Agency, Austin. – 1998
This document contains Chapter 117 of the Texas Education Code, 28.002, and is related to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Fine Arts, originally adopted in September of 1997. The provisions and expectations for each area of the fine arts (art, music, dance, theater) and each grade level are provided. The document is divided into…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advanced Placement, Art, Dance
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1976
The third annual report to the Florida Legislature and the State Board of Education reiterates the background and reasons for time shortened education, the methods of student acceleration, and the financial implications of acceleration. Progress in student acceleration in Florida through year-round matriculation, credit verified proficiency,…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Advanced Placement, Community Colleges, Dual Enrollment
National Commission on Excellence in Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1982
Perspectives on admission to college and the articulation between secondary school and postsecondary education are addressed in a 1982 public hearing. It is noted that there are two patterns: flexible admissions and inflexible admissions practices. Inflexible admissions places the emphasis on admissions, rather than the desired intellectual…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Advanced Placement
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. – 1977
The fourth annual report to the Florida Legislature reviews the reasons for time-shortened education, methods for student acceleration, and financial implications of acceleration. This progress report contains information on year-round matriculation, credit by verified proficiency (including equivalency tests and advanced placement), credit for…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Advanced Placement, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1991
The purpose of this hearing was to examine the status of the Star Schools program, a federal program enacted by Congress in 1987 that enables students to be linked together via satellite or cable TV hookup with teachers in different parts of the country. Star Schools are a network of distance education programs that link remote classes of students…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Cable Television, Communications Satellites, Computer Networks
Vaccaro, John – 1982
Developments relating to college admission standards, the quality of high school curricula, and academic achievement are discussed by a representative of the College Board. Attention is directed to College Board data on the following issues: the decline on verbal and mathematics Scholastic Aptitude Test scores; trends in the number of years that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Acceleration (Education)
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1988
Brief summaries are provided for each of the standardized tests used in California for college admissions and placement, in accordance with the law requiring the filing of financial disclosure and test materials and data for any tests administered to as many as 3,000 persons in the State. The summaries provide narrative and tabulated data…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Aptitude Tests, Asian Americans, Black Students
