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ERIC Number: EJ540347
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
From Bureaucratic Control to Building Human Capital: The Importance of Teacher Learning in Education Reform.
Smylie, Mark A.
Educational Researcher, v25 n9 p9-11 Dec 1996
Argues that standards and assessments are not the simple solution to educational reform they are thought to be and that they raise questions about the proper aims of schooling. Offers human capital development, i.e., the increase in knowledge, skills, dispositions, and social resources of adults in schools as a more potent potential for improving schools. (GR)
Descriptors: Administration, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Capital, Public Schools, Standards, Teacher Education, Teacher Improvement
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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