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Download full textNCEO Policy Directions, 1995
The "Goals 2000: Educate America Act" emphasizes including all students in education reform considerations and expects all students to achieve world-class educational standards and learn challenging content to a high level of performance. The Act also establishes voluntary opportunity-to-learn (OTL) standards. OTL standards are defined…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation
National Center on Educational Outcomes, Minneapolis, MN. – 1995
This pamphlet describes the bases of the educational outcomes and indicators for students (including students with disabilities) developed by the National Center on Educational Outcomes. The importance of developing an outcomes and indicators model with a rationale, wording, and appearance that support a philosophy in which educational outcomes…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Linn, Robert L. – 1994
Although the use of test results to demonstrate educational shortcomings is important, tests and assessments are also expected to be an instrument of reform. In fact, they are often expected to provide the primary means of creating educational reform. The minimum competency testing movement and the expansion of the use of test results for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Equal Education
Ysseldyke, James E.; And Others – 1994
This paper provides an overview of the use of "opportunity to learn" (OTL) standards, in relation to its implications for students with disabilities. It reviews "opportunity to learn" standards in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act and in Congressional report language on Goals 2000. The paper offers five different definitions…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Accountability, Definitions
Mulcahy, D. G. – 1994
The National Education Standards and Improvement Council (NESIC) was established in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. One of NESIC's duties is to identify areas in which specific educational standards ought to be developed. Several complex issues arise in carrying out this duty, such as: the need for standards in such non-content areas as…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedArraf, Shereen – READ Perspectives, 1996
Overviews a bilingual program serving urban schoolchildren who come from Arabic-speaking homes. The article describes the mission of the program as the preparation of students, in close cooperation with their families, to become contributing citizens in a changing society by providing a challenging curriculum to develop knowledge and a sense of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Arabs, Bilingual Education, Change Strategies
