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Download full textLaitinen, Amy – New America Foundation, 2012
The basic currency of higher education--the credit hour--represents the root of many problems plaguing America's higher education system: the practice of measuring time rather than learning. "Cracking the Credit Hour" traces the history of this time-based unit, from the days of Andrew Carnegie to recent federal efforts to define a credit…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Credits, Measurement, Educational History
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1900
Volume 2 of the Commissioner's report includes a chapter on education and crime, which considers the relationship between crime and education with statistics included. The Canadian education chapter discusses the public education system, universities, current issues, technical and industrial education, and a section on Ontario education. Chapter…
Descriptors: Crime, Education, Statistical Data, Public Education
