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Fisher, Philip – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1987
The issue of what comprises a good secondary school curriculum is still unresolved. The progressive education of the 1960s has yielded to a traditionalist emphasis on a strong liberal education for all students. Future reform will be based on what the present reform movement overlooks--strong vocational programs for students who are not…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Equal Education
Download full textSanacore, Joseph – 1996
The education profession as well as the public do not need exposure to more one-sided opinions about the need for academic preschools, about how to generate higher standards, about how poorly United States schools perform as compared to schools in other industrialized nations, and about other potentially volatile issues. In responding to the…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Dwyer, David C.; And Others – 1982
Kensington School is an elementary school in Milford (Missouri) School District built in 1966 with open classrooms and designed for team teaching and other innovative practices. A visit 15 years later reveals that the physical plant has deteriorated somewhat, most classrooms are walled off from each other, and innovative structures are not now…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Peer reviewedNelson, Jack L. – International Journal of Social Education, 1991
Discusses the educational reform efforts to reorganize the social studies curriculum in the United States. Criticizes a return to conservative, traditional approaches to social studies than emphasize history and geography while ignoring more contemporary ideas. Suggests that, to develop a discipline of social studies, more scholarly pursuit and…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Conservatism, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Nowak, Jon; Hiatt, Diana Buell – 1986
This study focuses on vocational education curriculum and staffing changes among California school districts as a result of 1983 state back-to-basics educational reform legislation (Hughes-Hart Educational Reform Act of 1983). Data were gathered from 1981-86, beginning with baseline data two years prior to, during, and two years after legislation.…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Altschul, D. Robert – 1984
A geographer responds to three themes found in the U.S. National Commission on Excellence in Education report "A Nation at Risk": (1) the return to basics theme, (2) the science and technology theme, and (3) the social science theme. The report recommends the adoption of "New Basics," which, in four years of high school, would…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Needs
