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On Old Practices and New Purposes in Education.
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Cross, K. Patricia – 1981
The dilemma of maintaining academic standards as well as open access policies is discussed in this paper with respect to the causes of and possible solutions to the problem. Trends leading to the standards/open access dilemma are first considered, including the dominant belief in the 1950's that education served to select and groom the most…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction