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Opportunity Knocks! Inquiry, the New National Social Studies and Science Standards, and You
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Ratzer, Mary Boyd – Knowledge Quest, 2014
To be recognized and adopted, the promise and potential of national standards must validate the instructional role of the school librarian and build formative knowledge through authentic process and products. Inquiry is a direct link to those dimensions. Standards that are rigorous and relevant optimize the developing brain's affinity for building…
Descriptors: State Standards, School Libraries, Library Role, Social Studies
The Association for Science Education and the Struggle To Establish a Policy for School Science in England and Wales, 1976-81.
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Jenkins, E. W. – History of Education, 1998
Focuses on the struggle that occurred within the Association for Science Education (ASE) between 1976 and 1981 as it formulated its policy for school science education. Addresses policy and the ASE's inability to respond quickly to changes in education, such as science education for all. (CMK)
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Policy
Implications of IEA Findings for the Philosophy of Comprehensive Education.
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Husen, Torsten – 1973
The comprehensive-versus-selective school issue is primarily a socio-politico-economic rather than pedagogic problem. The International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) had as its primary objective to relate certain social, economic and pedagogic characteristics of the different systems to the outcomes of instruction in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Philosophy