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ERIC Number: EJ208031
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-Oct
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K-12 Competency-Based Education Comes to Pennsylvania.
Sandberg, John H.
Phi Delta Kappan, v61 n2 p119-20 Oct 1979
Pennsylvania's attempt to implement competency-based education in the public schools is a well-meaning but misguided effort to improve the schools. It will succeed only in diverting vast amounts of time, energy, and intelligence away from more important and more attainable goals. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Pennsylvania; Project 81