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The National Reform of Education: Overview and Outlook.
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Ornstein, Allan C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1992
Summarizes the contents of 13 national commission reports from the 1960s to the 1990s, highlighting recent trends in course and graduation requirements, grade inflation, achievement test scores, international comparisons, functional illiteracy figures, and school demography. An education policy that invests in human capital and productivity and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Children's Well-Being: An International Comparison. A Report of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. One Hundred First Congress, Second Session together with Additional Minority Views. Committee Print.
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Hobbs, Frank; Lippman, Laura – 1990
This report presents international statistics on the status of children and families, and thus updates a 1988 fact sheet containing international comparisons of public policies promoting the well-being of children and families. Included in the report are data on basic demographic trends, family composition and marital dissolution, the economic…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Comparative Analysis, Demography
Monitoring Commission Report on the Status of Implementation of the Special Education Components of the Student Desegregation Plan for the Chicago Public Schools. For the Subcommittee on Special Project Initiatives.
Davidson, Mary E.; And Others – 1984
This evaluation summarizes progress made in implementing procedures to reduce racial bias in referral, assessment, and placement procedures for special education under a court-mandated desegregation plan in Chicago (Illinois). The Board of Education discontinued the use of intelligence tests in evaluating students for special education and formed…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Tests
Defining a Standard Education for Oregon Students.
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Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1990
Periodically, over a period of 20 years, the state of Oregon has drafted and discarded various definitions of basic education. As a result of House Bill 2132, the Oregon State Board of Education responded to the call to define by rule a basic education program to be available to all elementary and secondary students in public schools. This report…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Oversight Hearing on the Problem of "Brittle Books" in Our Nation's Libraries. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee of Education and Labor. House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session (March 3, 1987).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1987
Held to solicit the opinions of experts regarding the preservation of the brittle books in the nation's libraries, this hearing was intended to determine the appropriate federal, state, and private sector roles; learn the magnitude of costs and who should bear them; and explore what procedures are necessary to insure that selection decisions are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Books, Cooperation, Financial Support
Most Productive Environments for Mentally Retarded Individuals.
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Thomas, M. Angele – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1980
Enactment of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act stipulated that the mentally retarded, among other groups of handicapped children, be educated in the least restrictive environment. Specialized instruction and related service needs are crucial components to be considered in designing an adequate educational program for exceptional…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Curriculum Development, Educational Environment, Educational Legislation