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Fry, Betty C. – Business Education Forum, 1988
The author addresses the impact and significance of the back-to-the-basics movement as it relates to business education. She focuses on curriculum for business students, the need to train teachers to provide basic skills instruction, the role of business education, effects of the educational reform groups, and strategies for business educators.…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Basic Skills, Business Education, Educational Change

Apple, Michael W. – NASSP Bulletin, 1988
Examines some disturbing tendencies in curriculum content and descion-making. Argues that a rigorous, neoconservative back-to-basics program, coupled with use of corporate school management models, is not the answer. Excessive standardization could increase the dropout rate and cause the deskilling of teachers. Societal influences need to be…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Basic Skills, Class Size, Educational Change
American Educator, 1996
A series of focus group studies conducted by the Public Agenda Foundation explored public reactions to educational standards in 1993. This study revealed broad and spontaneous support for the idea that higher expectations will produce higher achievement. The strong endorsement of higher standards was also a manifestation of the public's concern…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Back to Basics, Basic Skills