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Download full textWheelock, Anne – 1995
This paper describes the status of the standards movement in relation to the middle grades and in terms of the policy context of the 1990s. It also outlines the potential of standards-guided reform at the middle level. By the early years of the 1990s, two key assumptions characterized the new wave of proposed reforms: that schools needed to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
