Educational reforms

DeBoer, G. E. (2000). Scientific literacy Another look at its historical and contemporary meanings and its relationship to science education reform. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 37(6), 582-601. 

Simon, J. The Comenian educational reformers 1640-1660 and the Royal Society of London. Acta Comeniana 26 (1970) 165-178. 

School uniforms for public school students is among the most controversial proposals for education reform in America. Where do you stand on this issue Defend your position. 

Smith, M. (1994). The national education reform movement. Paper presented at the Sigma Xi Fomm Program Scientists, Educators and National Standards Action at the Local Level, Atlanta, GA. 

ASD 9-1, 344. See J. Kittelson, Luther the Educational Reformer, in Luther and Learning, ed. M. Harran (London, 1985), 95-114 he notes that the fruits [of humanistic learning] were not scientia or knowledge, but sapientia or wisdom (97). 

Kittelson, J. Luther the Educational Reformer, in M. Harran, ed. Luther and Learning. London, 1985, 95-114. 

The national SENCER project STEM education reform activities include the SENCER Summer Institutes, model courses, backgrounders, and a searchable digital library of course materials. The Summer Institutes are intensive workshops where interdisciplinary institutional teams work on SENCER-based curriculum development projects. Over the years, SENCER has identified over 30 model courses that exemplify the SENCER approach and provide faculty with course elements that can be broadly adapted and implemented (models are described in more detail below). To assist faculty in designing new... 

What does it mean that WWC is a laboratory inquiry program What does inquiry mean Science education reform efforts have placed an... 

The importance of K-12 education to the nation s future is without question, and the national investment of well over 300 billion per year is consistent with this importance. To derive the maximum benefit from this substantial investment, it is past time to end the apparent disconnect between educational practice and basic research on human development and learning. Educational reform will have a much greater chance to succeed if informed by quantified knowledge of what works. 

But the fervour for science education for girls seems to have abated in the early decades of the 20th century. In 1912, the Headmistress of Sacred Heart School, Hammersmith, described how the educational reforms of the later decades of the 19th century had emphasised the teaching of natural science. She added ... 

Ellsworth, E. W. (1979). Liberators of the Female Mind The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women s Movement. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut. 

Gauri, V. 1998. School Choice in Chile Two Decades of Educational Reform. Pittsburgh, PA University of Pittsburgh Press. 

King, E., P. Ozarem, and D. Wohlgemuth. 1998. "Central Mandates and Local Incentives The Colombia Education Voucher Program." Paper No. 6, Working Paper Series on Impact Evaluation of Education Reforms, World Bank, Development Research Group, Washington, DC. 

Resnick, L., Resnick, D. (1992). Assessing the thinking curriculum New tools for educational reform. In B. Gifford M. O Connor (Eds.), Changing assessments Alternative views of aptitude, achievement and instruction (pp. 37-76). Norwell, MA Kluwer Academic Publishers. 

Means B, Olson K (1995) Technology s role in education reform, http //www.ncrel.org/tplan/ cbtl/execsum.htm. Accessed 17 March 2006... 

J.C. Rousseau, J.B. Basedow, C.G. Salzmann, and, later, J.H. Pestalozzi, children s education and the training and civilizing of the lesser classes gained significant attention. This led to plans for education reforms and the start of courses for craftsmen and manufacturers, whereby the diffusion of knowledge of nature was one of the objectives pursued. Martinet s 1779 Catechism of nature for the use of children offers a good example of this new phase in science popularization a fortiori this also counts for the establishment, five years later, of the Maatschappij tot Nut... 

Charles Eliot went on to become the president of Harvard University, and in 1892 he chaired a commission on educational reform which has had a lasting impact, for better or worse, on American education. This commission, known today as the Committee of Ten, was appointed by the National Education Association and was charged with codifying university entrance requirements so that secondary curricula in turn could be made more uniform (which in turn implies simplification). Two of the recommendations in the Committee s final report bear on the importance of laboratory work. First, the Committee recommended that approximately one-fifth of a student s total time in secondary school would be devoted to the study of science, which included biologically related studies under the rubric of natural history. Second, the Committee recommended that fully one-half of the science course work be laboratory work because of their belief that efforts made by the students in the laboratory were the best means of instruction. 

The first involves educational reform. At the national level, we are participating actively on the National Board for Professional Teacher Certification. At the state level, we have various initiatives in localities where Du Pont has a significant presence. The most advanced of these is work done to upgrade management and leadership skills of school administrators and superintendents in the Texas school system. This is now being extended to several other states through the Department of Education s "Leadership in Educational Administration Development" (LEAD) program. 

Concerns are being voiced from a broad spectrum of individuals and organizations. Calls for educational reform have come from the private sector, legislative bodies and national scientific and education organizations such as the AAAS (i-2), NCTM (3) and NSTA (4). 

As BP America gained experience in working to achieve educational reform, we learned very quickly about the advantages of partnerships and the value of intermediary organizations. We could sit around the table and work on a common agenda with representatives of other businesses, higher education, and the school district, and we learned that a great deal more could be accomplished than if we attempted to "go it alone."... 

Issan, S. A., Gomaa, N. M. M. (2010). Post basic education reforms in Oman A case study. Literacy Information and Computer Echcation Journal (LICEJ), 7(1), 19-27. 

The World Bank. (2008). MENA development report. The road not traveled. Education reform in the Middle East and Africa. http //siteresourees.worldbank.oig/INTMENA/Resources/EDU Flagship Full ENG.pdf. Accessed 23 May 2004. 

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