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Hayton, Carol – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
The author is a long-time advocate inside the Labour Party for ending selective education and the 11-plus. She outlines how Labour Party frontbenchers routinely ignore or deflect calls from Party members to stand up for comprehensive education in both word and deed. As UKIP, whose policy is to extend selective education more widely, rises in the…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Rance-Roney, Judith – Educational Leadership, 2011
For many English language learners, the endgame isn't passing state exams--it's attending and graduating from college. Yet schools often focus on a lower target: proficiency. To support the transition of English language learners to postsecondary success, schools should create formal transition plans, provide differentiated guidance, focus on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), English, Language Proficiency
Drame, Elizabeth R.; Frattura, Elise – Urban Education, 2011
Public charter schools across the country are struggling to better serve a range of students with disabilities. Using the approach of a participatory evaluation, a K-8 college preparatory school community of teachers, administrators, parents, and students were better able to define those practices that impeded or supported a high-quality proactive…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Charter Schools, Position Papers, Case Studies
Chesley, Gary M.; Hartman, Diane – Principal Leadership, 2010
During the 2008-2009 school year, faculty members at New Fairfield (CT) Middle School examined relevance and student engagement in relation to student achievement. Subtle clues indicated that students were not fully engaged in their learning: many students did not relate their classroom experiences to their personal reality or to their vision of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Middle Schools, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement
Feinberg, Walter – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2007
This essay addresses the question: given the flattening out of the cultural hierarchy that was the vestige of colonialism and nation-building, is there anything that might be uniquely common about the common school in this postmodern age? By "uniquely common" I do not mean those subjects that all schools might teach, such as reading or arithmetic.…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy, Educational Objectives, Educational Principles
Barrow, Robin – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2007
This paper, while broadly arguing in favour of the common school, nonetheless accepts the possibility of distinct specialist institutions in the later years of secondary schooling. It also argues for a careful distinction between a comprehensive school and a comprehensive classroom; further distinguishing between grouping by reference to alleged…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Objectives, Educational Principles, Secondary Education
Maloney, Clark M. – 1969
As attitudes of an organization's members are important in attaining its goals, this study proposed to determine faculty attitudes to comprehensive college aims. Selected as subjects were 100 full-time instructors from Missouri public junior colleges. The investigator expected to find transfer faculty more favorable to general and transfer…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Objectives, Opinions
Klingberg, Gote – 1970
The LIGRU project is concerned with the objectives, methods, and evaluation of literature instruction in the Swedish comprehensive school. This document presents a taxonomy of educational objectives and evaluation instruments. The resulting scheme, derived from a review of other classification schema, has two dimensions -- goal area and aspect.…
Descriptors: Classification, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Objectives, Educational Research

Kohler, Gerda – Comparative Education, 1973
As an introduction to the problems of the Indonesian education system this study first examines the present system, then considers the Sekolah Pembangunan' reform, and finally reviews the new model in relation to a possibly necessary conversion of the whole Indonesian education system. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Critical Thinking, Diagrams, Economics

Feller, Richard A. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1973
Described a program designed to provide educational opportunities for elderly persons and considered how community colleges were able to reach young adult, pre-retirement and retirement populations. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Becker, Hellmut – Comp Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Communication Skills, Comparative Education
Gysbers, Norman C.; Henderson, Patricia – 2001
Fundamental beliefs and organizational structure represent an important part of comprehensive guidance programs serving students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. These programs help students gain competencies in the areas of personal/social, educational, and career development at all educational levels. Comprehensive programs guarantee that…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Cooperation, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Dougan, James E. – American Vocational Journal, 1971
Management by objective is the key--cooperation with other vocational services the watchword. (Editor)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agricultural Education, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Objectives
Johnson, Ernest M. – Amer Vocat J, 1970
Much has been said about educating the whole child, not enough about educating the whole adult. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comprehensive Programs, Dropout Programs, Educational Objectives
Armstrong, David G.; Pinney, Robert H. – 1977
One practical consideration in the implementation of individualized instruction is the development of a record keeping system. It should reflect the characteristics of the instructional system it serves by (1) tracking the progress of the learner through stated objectives; (2) providing diagnostic data of proficiencies and deficiencies; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Objectives, Individualized Instruction