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Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2009
The latest draft of proposed common academic standards offers more-detailed expectations of what students should know and be able to do by the end of high school in math and language arts, but also notes that some decisions about curricula should be left to individual states and schools. The new version, released for public comment last week, is…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Academic Standards, Program Proposals, Policy Analysis
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Campbell, Craig; Sherington, Geoffrey – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2006
In New South Wales as for other Australian colonies, the achievement of mainly free, compulsory and secular public education systems in the 1870s was a cause of self- satisfaction and a belief that late nineteenth-century Australian public schools were among the best in the world. In this paper, the process by which this self-satisfaction was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Satisfaction, Educational Change