This lesson plan was developed through "Economics International," an international program to help build economic education infrastructures in the emerging market economies. It provides a lesson description; economic concepts; content standards and benchmarks; related subject areas; instructional objectives; time required for lesson…

This lesson plan was developed through "Economics International," an international program to help build economic education infrastructures in the emerging market economies. It provides a lesson description; appropriate grade level; economic concepts; content standards and benchmarks; related subjects; instructional objectives; time…

This document contains the 2000-2005 statewide master plan for public higher education in Tennessee developed from a review of literature; reports; interviews with legislators, government officials, business and industry representatives; and analysis of data from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. The master plan outlines the goals and…

Asserts that educators who advocate lifelong learning too often support a narrow and arbitrary system of nomenclature, which implies that learning and thus education are terminal concepts. The need for administrative structure and socially recognized reward has plagued educators, and their clients, with learning near-sightedness. The question…

This model is designed to provide direction for school districts to develop their own competency-based education programs. It is not intended as an instructional guide. The guide's ultimate purpose is to enhance the quality of social studies learning (history, sociology, geography, economics, government) in Ohio schools. The personnel responsible…

The North Carolina Alternate Assessment Portfolio (NCAAP) is a year-long, performance-based assessment process that involves a representative and deliberate collection of student work/information that allows the user(s) to make judgments about what a student knows and is able to do. This includes the progress that has been made in those goals…

Fostering an ethic of active citizenship is typically a key goal for national service. However, national service advocates often assume that national service will act as civic education, paying insufficient attention to what this means and how different policy designs further or undermine different conceptions or aspects of citizenship. This paper…

During the past four years, the interchange of teachers between the United Kingdom and the United States has received great impetus, and has been a remarkably successful program in building international understanding. Though the program got under way successfully before the war, exchanges before 1945 were limited for the most part to students and…

Not willing to join those critics who toll the death bell for American schools, this author suggests appropriate action for revitalizing schools. (Editor)

Article consists of an examination of the political controversy which arose in the state of Maharashtra when a plan for "educational development" was put forward for public consideration by the state cabinet in April 1968. (Author)

Instead of being trained in the skills of one particular career and one set of leisure-time interests, man should be trained in adaptability, to be capable of continually absorbing new facts, methods, and ideas. (Author)

An address by the Chancellor of North Carolina State University to the National Adult Education Conference, Dallas, Oct. 30, 1973, emphasizes the two purposes of adult education: to enlarge human capability in society at large and to enhance individual fulfillment. (MS)

State legislation is holding school systems progressively more accountable. Easy evaluation for instructional systems will be needed for accountability and it is suggested that competency-based instructional systems can lead to such an evaluation. (DS)

Reviews a recommended master plan for higher education in California devised by the California legislature. (DN)