Competency Based Education: Understanding a Political Movement.

Ross, Dorene D.

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Publication Date: 1982

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Competency Based Education: Understanding a Political Movement.

Ross, Dorene D.

Educational Forum, v46 n4 p483-90 Sum 1982

The trend toward competency-based education and competency testing is the work of legislators and politicians, not educators. Some of the latter express serious reservations about it. The minimum competency testing movement is a result of the effort to integrate minorities into the mainstream of society. (JOW)

Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Minority Groups, Policy Formation, Political Issues, School Desegregation, Social Problems

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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