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Whose Standards Are These? A Chronological Glossary Of Standards In P-12 Education, Richard E. Day
Whose Standards Are These? A Chronological Glossary Of Standards In P-12 Education, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
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Lowering State's Educatioon Standards A Bad Idea, Richard E. Day
Lowering State's Educatioon Standards A Bad Idea, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
Low expectations are much worse than high expectations. Low expectations are a recipe for low performance. For a principal, low expectations remove the need for results. For a teacher, it is an invitation to ease up and allow a certain percentage of hard-to-teach students to fail; and students always do better when teachers really try. Motivation is important in any human endeavor, and that includes teaching. What gets inspected gets respected. Reasonable accountability systems, applied humanely, give the public useful information about the performance of schools without harming children in the process. In its present form, NCLB is not that …
Inclusion Of Numeracy In Adult Basic Education, Dave Tout, Mary Schmitt
Inclusion Of Numeracy In Adult Basic Education, Dave Tout, Mary Schmitt
David (Dave) Tout
In their chapter on numeracy, the authors begin by exploring the many terms used to describe the learning of mathematics by adults. They discuss the relationship between the terms "mathematics" and "numeracy" and explain why numeracy--making meaning with numbers and mathematical processes--is the term they chose for their overview. Moving on to examine adult numeracy education in the U.S, the authors find that little attention is paid to the development of math skills among adults in Adult Basic Education (ABE) research but that adult numeracy education is prominent in practice. They highlight the development of practitioner groups that share ideas, …
Educational Measurement: Prospects For Research And Innovation, Geoff Masters
Educational Measurement: Prospects For Research And Innovation, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
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