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Peer reviewedShine, William A.; Goldman, Norman – Educational Leadership, 1980
Contends that New Jersey's Minimum Basic Skills (MBS) tests in reading and mathematics waste time and money and should not be used by the state as the criteria to measure school and district performance. Low scores are the result of social conditions schools cannot correct by themselves. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics
Peer reviewedBurke, Fred G. – Educational Leadership, 1980
The New Jersey Commissioner of Education replies that the Minimum Basic Skills (MBS) tests are not the sole criterion used to measure school and district performance and that some schools manage to teach well despite their students' low socioeconomic level. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics
Peer reviewedBrickell, Henry M. – Educational Leadership, 1980
Radical, but nevertheless serious, suggestions are made to change ineffective schools. (MLF)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Melvin, Leland D. – 1983
Recent criticism of public education has led to demands for educational improvement. Responses to this criticism include the development of minimum competency tests (MCTs) and calls for increased academic requirements. This paper reviews a national survey of state graduation requirements that reveals a wide variance in requirements. Eighteen…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boards of Education, Court Litigation, Disabilities
Download full textPage, Reba Neukom – 1983
The symbolic function of curricular debate, as it is manifested in the minimum competency testing movement (MCT), is investigated. Curricular debate necessarily reflects the demands of the society in which it arises. The topics that are addressed spring from this milieu and the language in which issues are couched must be appropriate to it.…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development
Sweat, Clifford H., Ed. – 1979
Designed to encourage debate, discussion, and, eventually, evaluation of the minimum competency testing movement, this book examines academic, physical, social, aesthetic, and vocational competencies that are basic to the development of the early adolescent. The first of six chapters, Early Adolescent Competencies, raises issues facing schools for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Career Education, Competence
Walker, Noojin, Ed. – 1979
A workshop attended by faculty members from three Florida junior colleges and one university was held in response to legislation requiring students to demonstrate minimum communications and computation skills before entering upper division programs. General conclusions reached during the workshop focused on the value of competency testing in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Communication Skills
