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Direct linkEllis, Louise A. – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2005
In most Australian schools, there are significant numbers of students who are failing to learn effectively. They underachieve in all or some of the basic skill areas of the curriculum. Concerns regarding the most appropriate methods with which to address the needs of these students remain widespread amongst teachers. This publication examines the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Basic Skills, Educational Psychology, Constructivism (Learning)
Scheirer, Elinor A. – 1988
This paper explores how a set of curriculum reforms in the United States and England over the past 20 years may be interrelated, according to conclusions drawn from ethnographic investigation and informed by historical reflections. The discussion centers upon the case of informal, open, or progressive education, which has enjoyed a 40 plus--year…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Cornish, Edward; And Others – Curriculum Review, 1986
Essay on educating children for the 21st century discusses lifelong learning, fundamental skill development, topics future-oriented curriculums should include, and educational trends. Agencies specializing in various aspects of the future are listed in teaching resource guide. Instructional materials including software, learning kits, books, and…
Descriptors: Agencies, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Download full textRoueche, John E. – 1984
By the late 1960s, the most offered courses in American community colleges were remedial reading, remedial writing, and remedial arithmetic. The success of the early efforts in community colleges was marginal at best, as is evidenced by a 1968 study indicating that nearly 90 percent of all remedial students failed or dropped out of remedial…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Mitchell, Anita – 1980
This paper explores the issue of establishing and evaluating objectives for local career education programs. It presents a perspective on the state of the art based on reviews of the literature. Although it is addressed principally to local program developers and managers, the paper is also aimed at state career education coordinators. After a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Career Education
Carnevale, Anthony Patrick – 1984
American society is based on work. The industrial revolution exposed a growing proportion of the population to unemployment, underemployment, and dislocation. Early theoreticians believed that unemployment was a temporary labor market imbalance that would correct itself with downward wage adjustments. John Maynard Keynes, on the other hand, argued…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Dislocated Workers, Economic Change
Hautecoeur, Jean-Paul, Ed. – 1990
This publication contains 21 reports that explore and document literacy. Following an introduction (Jean-Paul Hautecoeur), the first part deals with literacy in North America. Reports are "Functional Illiteracy and the 'New Literacy'" (Jean-Pierre Velis); "Literacy Policy in Quebec: An Historical Overview" (Jean-Paul…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Sawbridge, Stephen J. – 2001
This document is intended to help practitioners and researchers in the United Kingdom find and use Internet-based research resources dealing with raising achievement. The introduction discusses the state of research into school effectiveness in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Part A, which reviews available World Wide Web sites devoted to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adoption (Ideas), Basic Skills
