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O'Bryan-Garland, Sharon; Parkay, Forrest W. – NASSP Bulletin, 1985
Two prominent leaders in education, Charles Suhor and Jane Stallings, are interviewed concerning the present status and significant effects of the basic skills movement, the effect the National Commission on Excellence in Education report will have on basic skills education, and the number one priority for education in the future. (DCS)
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Basic Skills, Educational Objectives, Educational Trends
Gutknecht, Bruce – 1989
Reading instruction based on the acquisition of basic skills has produced a basic level of literacy in children, but such minimal levels of literacy are no longer sufficient for students required to deal effectively with complicated literary and informational material encountered in upper elementary, middle, and high school texts. Research in the…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading, Educational Trends

Language Arts, 1983
Contains representative selections from issues of "Language Arts" from its sixth decade of publication. Includes articles, editorials, and ads reflecting trends in English education that are currently of conern, such as declining test scores, censorship, the "back to basics" trend, and recognition of nonstandard dialects. (HTH)
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Censorship, Educational History, Educational Trends
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
Sizer, Theodore R. – 1983
Seven major trends are reflected in the current task force and commission reports on education. The first, "back to basics," stresses intellectual skills, but often at the expense of the affective domain. The second emphasizes the relationship between education, work, and the economy, but the direction schools should take remains…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Economics