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Marr, John P. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Professional development has been a focus of public education since World War II, yet, it was not until the passage of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act in 1994 that professional development became federally mandated. The infusion of educational technology at the start of Goals 2000 created a natural connection with professional development. In…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, War, Active Learning, Educational Technology
Clinchy, Blythe McVicker – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
What is striking about the Goals 2000 initiative is its virtual omission of the student, except as passive receptacle. To claim that students will learn more with heightened expectations is misleading. For content to take root, it must connect with students' internal "prepared structures" and become a "comfortable friend." In…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Riccomini, Paul J. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2005
The present study investigated 90 elementary teachers' ability to identify two systematic error patterns in subtraction and then prescribe an instructional focus. Presented with two sets of 20 completed subtraction problems comprised of basic facts, computation, and word problems representative of two students' math performance, participants were…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Word Problems (Mathematics), Subtraction, Mathematics Achievement