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Title

The future of education : perspectives on national standards in America / Nina Cobb, editor ; with an introduction by Robert Orrill.

Publication

New York : College Entrance Examination Board, c1994.

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Additional Authors

• Cobb, Nina Kressner.
• College Entrance Examination Board.

Description

vi, 287 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Education > Standards > United States
• Education and state > United States

Note

• "The future of education had its genesis at the 1994 Invitational Conference of the Forum on Standards and Learning"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Titanic structure or human scale : school reform at the close of the twentieth century / Robert Orrill -- Curriculum ferment in the 1890s / Herbert M. Kliebard -- Implications of subject-matter standards / Christopher T. Cross -- The politics of national standards / Tom Loveless -- The threat to freedom in Goals 2000 / Stephen Arons -- Developing world-class education standards : some conceptual and political dilemmas / J. Myron Atkin -- Curriculum and assessment standards : common measures or conversations? / Dennie Palmer Wolf -- Policy and practice : the relations between governance and instruction / David K. Cohen and James P. Spillane -- Goals 2000 and a reauthorized ESEA : national standards and accompanying controversies / Michael W. Kirst and James W. Guthrie -- Teachers' professional development : critical colleagueship and the role of professional communities / Brian Lord -- Teachers regulating themselves : teachers owning their standards / Philip A. Cusick -- National curriculum content standards : the challenges for subject matter associations / Diane Massell -- Problems and issues facing the national standards project in English / Miles Myers.

ISBN

0874475309 :

LCCN

94068877

OCLC

• ocm31699967
• SCSB-2066793

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library