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Bray, Mark – Educational Policy, 1991
Outlines strategies to reduce inequities in numerous counties, focusing on the distribution of financial and human resources. Also addresses issues of diversity and conformity in education systems. Reduction of regional imbalances does not necessarily require imposition of uniformity, but the diversity caused by decentralization is not always…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Noble, Audrey J.; Smith, Mary Lee – Educational Policy, 1994
Recent incorporation of a performance assessment in Arizona's test mandate provides an opportunity to examine the assumptions and beliefs underlying measurement-driven reform. Efforts to meld cognitive-constructivist beliefs about pupil learning and assessment contradict behaviorist beliefs about changing teachers and reforming schools. Mandates…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions