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Peer reviewedWood, Robert; Power, Colin – Comparative Education, 1984
An analysis of national programs for monitoring student achievement in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States finds that "national assessment" promotes a view of "standards" which is narrow, limiting, and definitely not conducive to the emergence of flexible and imaginative educational policies designed to cope…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Definitions
Download full textQuality Education for Minorities Network, Washington, DC. – 1992
Although the national education goals announced in February 1990 were influenced by the goals defined by the Quality Education for Minorities Project, the recommendations of the project did not influence the administration's America 2000 strategy for achieving the goals. America 2000 does not address the problems that make it almost impossible for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
