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Download full textKasten, Margaret; And Others – 1988
Calculus has become the center of a heated debate within the mathematics community. There are those who question the very centrality of calculus in the mathematics curriculum. Evidence indicates that many current calculus courses are not serving students well. In addition, computers and advanced calculators can now do many of the manipulations…
Descriptors: Calculus, College Mathematics, Curriculum Development, Educational Trends
Howe, Robert W.; Suydam, Marilyn N. – 1989
Many school staff and their client communities are concerned about pupil achievement, skills, and attitudes related to mathematics. To respond to these concerns, staff need to determine how they can improve their elementary mathematics programs by modifying the content and skills emphasized in the curriculum, changing and supplementing…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement, Educational Trends, Elementary Education
Helgeson, Stanley L.; And Others – 1989
Many school staff and their client communities are concerned about pupil achievement, skills, and attitudes related to mathematics. To respond to these concerns, staff need to determine how they can improve their secondary mathematics programs by modifying the content and skills emphasized in the curriculum, changing and supplementing…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement, Educational Trends, Information Sources
Howe, Robert W. – 1989
Many school staff and their client communities are concerned about pupil achievement, skills, and attitudes related to the environment. To respond to these concerns, staff need to determine how they can improve their environmental education programs by modifying the content and skills emphasized in the curriculum, and supplementing instructional…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Trends, Elementary School Science
Adams, Marilyn Jager – 1990
A child's success in learning to read in the first grade appears to be the best predictor of his or her ultimate success in schooling as well as all of the events and outcomes that correlate with that. Yet, across the research literature reviewed for a recent book, "Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print," children's…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Trends, Emergent Literacy, Literature Reviews
Peyton, Joy; Crandall, JoAnn – 1995
Five approaches currently used in adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) literacy instruction are described. A group of strategies developed by Paulo Freire are participatory or learner-centered, and revolve around the discussion of issues drawn from learners' real-life experiences. The Whole Language Approach, more than a specific method or…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Competency Based Education, Educational Philosophy
Imel, Susan – 2003
The increase in the number of youth under age 18 enrolling in federally funded adult basic and literacy education programs is a trend that is putting increasing pressures on programs designed to serve an adult population. Documenting the extent of the trend is difficult due to the way in which federal statistics on age of program participants have…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Basic Skills, Continuation Students
