External Standards and Good Teaching: The Pros and Cons of Telling Teachers What to Do.

Porter, Andrew C.

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ERIC Number: EJ407963

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Publication Date: 1989

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External Standards and Good Teaching: The Pros and Cons of Telling Teachers What to Do.

Porter, Andrew C.

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v11 n4 p343-56 Win 1989

An analysis is provided of whether good teaching of worthwhile content to all students is better promoted by standard-setting initiatives or through leaving teachers alone. Alternative courses of action are reviewed that might make external standard-setting activities matters of persuasion, not issues of compliance. (SLD)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Freedom, Administrator Role, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Participative Decision Making, Professional Autonomy, Standard Setting, Standards, Teacher Administrator Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Center for Research on the Context of Secondary School Teaching and the Center for Policy Research on Education (East Lansing, MI, April 19-20, 1988).