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Leinwand, Steven – Learning, 1985
The impact which standardized mathematics tests have upon classroom instruction--content, sequence, pacing--is explored, and harmful consequences are discussed. Four suggestions are offered for enabling teachers to minimize "teaching for the tests" and to present a mathematics curriculum appropriate for their particular students. (DG)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Learning Readiness, Mathematics Achievement
Download full textMinnesota State Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning, St. Paul. – 1997
"Learning Readiness" is a public school initiative for all 3-4 year old children and their families in Minnesota. The purpose of the Learning Readiness programs is to provide all eligible children with adequate opportunities to participate in child development programs that enable them to enter school with the necessary skills and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1992
Suggestions for helping communities achieve the first National Education Goal--by the year 2000, all children will start school ready to learn--are presented in this document. The ways in which readiness is developed and what communities can do to support families are described. Examples are provided of 13 community projects that are preparing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Planning, Community Support, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedMarti-Bucknall, Wendy – Childhood Education, 2002
Describes the typical kindergarten day as experienced by one child in the German-speaking region of Switzerland. Illustrates the main goal of kindergarten as preparing children for school rather than teaching reading, writing, or written numeracy. Focuses on the oral language learning approach incorporating teacher- and child-initiated activities.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Early Intervention, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedParker, M. A.; Engel, J. B. – Education, 1983
A unified model of teaching and learning, representing a synthesis of internal and external forces influencing learning processes, diagrams interrelationships between the following processes: activator, situational evaluation, anticipated ends, stress, action, outcome, external evaluation, feedback, internal assessment, curiosity, and internal…
Descriptors: Curiosity, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs. – 1996
"Reaching the Goals" is a series of eight books designed to inform people involved in education reform, or people who want to be involved, of the myriad of programs and resources that are available from the Federal Government to support each of the National Education Goals defined in 1990. This first book is dedicated to Goal 1,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cognitive Development, Educational Objectives, Emotional Development
National Education Goals Panel, Washington, DC. – 1997
This report focuses on the first goal of the National Education Goals--that all children will arrive at school ready to learn. The report presents data indicating the status of young children at the start of the three year "I Am Your Child" campaign, and the progress of the nation and states toward meeting the health, family, and…
Descriptors: Child Health, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Early Intervention
