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The delivered curriculum, or the curriculum the students actually experience has always been a function of teacher decision making. Since the inception of high stakes accountability, the curricula to which [...]

Antebellum Catholic colleges reflected what Herbert Spencer called an 'indefinite homogeneity' in that they were less clearly differentiated from other aspects of the life of the Church than they are today, and their internal composition was amorphous in that they combined a mixture of functions later embodied in separate and distinct institutions. The discussion consists of four parts: (1) college-founding from the 1790s to the 1850s, (2) the ways in which colleges were immersed in the overall life of the Church, (3) the 'mixed' quality of their internal make-up, and (4) changes noticeable by midcentury that moved them toward a more restricted role in the life of the Church and promoted their eventual development into recognizably 'modern' institutions of higher education., According to Herbert Spencer's famous definition of evolution, the process is one by which primitive undifferentiated matter gradually assumes more complex forms made up of specialized subunits interacting together in [...]

Beginning in the late 1960s, and accelerating unabated through to the present, plaintiffs have filed more than 125 court cases questioning the constitutionality of school district and school spending levels. [...]

This article provides the first evidence that universities compete directly on price, and that the market for students depends on the proximity of competitors. Exploiting detailed data from private U.S. universities, price competition is tested by introducing geographic proximity into a spatial-autoregressive tuition model. Standard spatial models show that list and net tuition are inversely related to distance between institutions, consistent with price competition in higher education. An extension to the spatial-econometrics literature relaxes a constraint that estimated spatial relationships are common across all observations, implying that spatial effects differ across qualitative classes of institutions. (JEL C21, I2, L11), I. INTRODUCTION Over the last half century, the U.S. higher educational system has been transformed from a collection of local, independent college fiefdoms into a regionally and nationally integrated market [...]

This article illustrates the efforts of educators in North Carolina to advocate for the social studies in an age of high-stakes assessment and tight budgets. Although this story begins with [...]

1 How big is America's school system? Nearly 55 million children attend schools in the United States, taught by about 3.5 million teachers. About 89 percent of students from kindergarten [...]

Following an ecological framework, the primary purpose of this study was to examine the adjustment needs of international students within their academic and social communities. Focus group interviews revealed that [...]

In 1999-2000, 7.1 million adults age 24 or older constituted 43% of all undergraduates in U.S. institutions of higher education, compared to 5.73 million adult students enrolled a decade earlier [...]

Using an original and unique database of state charter school laws that we have developed, we analyze how state policymakers have incorporated two key values into state charter school laws: flexibility and accountability. We supplement this database with other state-level measures to answer two specific questions: What factors influence the degree of flexibility and accountability in state charter school laws? How does the content of state charter school laws, and the different values those laws embrace, affect the formation of charter schools in the United States? Overall, we show that state political and contextual factors help account for the degree of flexibility, but not accountability, in state charter school laws. Further, we show that the degree of flexibility, accountability, and political and contextual factors influence the number of charter schools that form in the states. KEY WORDS: charter schools, state policy, values, accountability, flexibility, Introduction Disagreements over values reside at the core of essentially all public policy controversies. Each day, elected officials reassure constituents of their commitment to promoting legislation that will achieve outcomes [...]

WHEN I FINISHED MY PH.D. AND BEGAN WORKING at a large southern state university in the early 1970s, the grunts who taught freshman English had in their possession a handsome [...]

Most American colleges and universities offer special courses for students who lack some of the reading, writing, and mathematics skills that are critical for college-level work (Roueche & Roueche, 1999). [...]

In 1900, Europe was the philosophical center of the world, as it was the center for science and scholarship in all fields. America was a province--in philosophy there were few [...]

In the United States of America, access to educational opportunity is widely viewed as a fundamental human right. The author explores the origins, content, and intended function of the controversial No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (PL 107-110) which was enacted by the Congress of the United States of America in the hope of closing the achievement gap, and providing disenfranchised groups the opportunity for successful educational attainment. The author examines PL 107-110, operationalised, and its actual impact upon the populations that this public law was crafted to serve, and begs the question; Is this law a support or threat to true education as a fundamental human right?, 'We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice and secure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and ensure the blessings [...]

What our world needs now Our world needs citizens who are wise, not just knowledgeable. We need people who can do more than store, retrieve, and apply facts and skills. [...]

Checked: 'Quality Counts,' Education Week, January 6, 2005 'The Funding Gap,' Education Trust, Fall 2004. This is a tale of two rankings. They represent the best of states--and the worst [...]

Using consistent test score data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress and data on per-pupil spending, I show that the productivity of American public schools fell by approximately half from 1970 to 2000. The most reliable international data also suggest that productivity in American public schools is lower than that of numerous other industrialized countries, including the remaining English-speaking ones. I explore explanations for the decline in productivity, including changing sociodemographics, Baumol's 'cost disease,' rising wages of female college graduates, the increasing emphasis on educating disadvantaged children, rising market power, and the education sector's relative decrease in pay for performance. I review evidence that suggests that schools raise their productivity and use of pay for performance when they lace competition. I also describe results that indicate that individual teachers have important, distinctive effects on achievement. JEL Classification: H400, H 700, 1200, J240, 1. Education as an Upstream Industry Hardly a day goes that we do not hear about the way today's economy relies on human skills. We may be justifiably dubious about [...]

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Historically, African American nurses have had three strikes against them. They were Black, female and in a profession still striving for equality and respect within the medical community. [...]

Educating the youth of America has always been a significant challenge, and the present is no different. We will be more effective as educators if we integrate the study of [...]

This study investigates the possibility that multimedia authorship may help students become more proficient writers. Four classes of 8th-grade students in an urban setting participated in the study, which took [...]

KAPPAN: I'd like to know more about where you grew up in China, about your experience with the gaokao (the Chinese test that determines college admissions), and how you came [...]

EDUCATION IS THE ANSWER. BUT, WHAT'S THE question? Simple: What's the cure for any adverse economic condition? Is your pay stagnant or declining? Quick, get more education. Are workers failing [...]

In December 2006, The New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, of which Mr. Tucker is co-chair, released its report Tough Choices or Tough Times. The report sets [...]

MOST DEBATES on the future of American higher education, and liberal education's role in it, broach the notion that 'education is at a crossroads.' What attracts me, a business consultant [...]

IN MANY WAYS, 'the perfect storm' describes well the situation facing higher education leaders at the turn of this new century. They may well feel tossed, turned, carried along by [...]

ONE OF THE MORE INTRIGUING TRENDS at the turn of the twenty-first century is the ascendant influence of religion in various aspects of American life. The renewed interest in religion [...]

WHAT IS THE EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE of the curricular breadth encouraged at liberal arts institutions? Presumably we want students to acquire a variety of skills and knowledge, but we often claim [...]

IN the US most states and school districts mandate testing programmes in order to assess pupils' academic attainment at both the primary and secondary levels. Since the signing into law [...]

Civic engagement is a term that has entered the lexicon of higher education in recent years, and institutional attention to the concept is fundamentally altering the way we prepare college [...]

Introduction Several years ago while teaching my high school physical science class, I was interrupted with a knock at my classroom door. One of my school's administrators was standing in [...]

INTRODUCTION According to the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (1996), there are currently more than 50 million students in K-12 schools in the United States, a number which [...]

Fifty years and more than two generations after a court ruling (Brown v. Board of Education) that called for making education equal, public education remains largely unequal. Since the Brown [...]

Byline: William Dittoe and Nat Porter For more than a decade, educators and designers have been moving tentatively into uncharted waters. They gradually are adopting new design principles that forsake [...]