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Overcoming Friendly Fire: Restructuring High Schools.
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Fischetti, John; And Others – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
Explores high school restructuring efforts under the Kentucky Education Reform Act. Issues of performance-based measures of learning and graduation requirements are discussed. Designing schools with the goal that all students succeed can overcome the friendly fire of cross-purposes in education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Restructuring the Urban Primary School: A Collaborative Approach to Developing a Nongraded Curriculum.
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Smith, J. Lea; And Others – 1992
In 1988 the Kentucky Supreme Court upheld a previous decision that the state public education system had failed to provide an efficient system of common schools. The Kentucky Educational Reform Act (KERA, 1990) came from this decision. This paper reviews the restructuring of a primary school under the KERA, focusing on one collaborative effort…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
The Arts and Equity.
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DeLuca, Louis S. – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
One form of educational inequity faced by most students is that schools recognize only linguistic and logical intelligence and do not allow for forms of intelligence expressed through the arts. The performance-based assessments of the Kentucky Education Reform Act and the Kentucky Basic Arts pilot program address the multiple intelligences of…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Art Education