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Peer reviewedTowers, James M. – Educational Forum, 1992
Traces the roots of outcome-based education in mastery learning. Considers such obstacles as lack of reform preconditions, poor understanding of program features, teacher resistance, teacher domestication, staff mobility, and routinization. (SK)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
