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Direct linkMendick, Heather – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
This article provides an approach to understanding the widely acknowledged difficulties experienced by young people in the transition from pre-16 to post-16 mathematics. Most approaches to understanding the disenchantment with and drop-out from AS-level mathematics focus on curriculum and assessment. In contrast, this article looks at the role of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
Price, Hugh B. – Brookings Institution, 2007
This Opportunity 08 position paper advises that the next President of the United States should focus on lifting the achievement levels of our nation's schoolchildren. It recommends that the new President should mount a determined effort, together with states and local school districts, to boost the academic performance of low achievers by: (1)…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Educational Change, Achievement Gains, School Districts
