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The Iatrogenic Consequences of Standards-Based Education
(2006)
Standards-based assessments were prescribed as the cure for the poor accountability of public schools. Billions of dollars have been spent on curricula, tests, and scoring rubrics so that federal and state agencies can ...
Out of the Box
(2001-09)
Public/Private Partnerships: A Trojan Horse for Higher Education?
(2010)
Partnering with private industry is presented as a sensible solution to some faculties at institutions of higher education during the current economic downturn. The authors discuss the historic context for increased ...
Losing the Product in the Process
(1999-05)
This article uses three examples of teachers using process writing to teach children to write to discuss that children are not being taught to write with correct grammar or sentence structure. Teachers feel unable to ...
From Tripod to Cosmos: A New Metaphor for the Language Arts
(1998-02)
This article discusses the old tripod model of language arts teaching, language, literature and composition and introduces a new model with eight petals (the cosmos flower), including technology, speech and drama, critical ...