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  2. Standards-based education reform in the United States

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    Creation of specific, concrete, measurable standards in an integrated curriculum framework. These standards apply to all schools in a state or country, regardless of race or relative wealth. Criterion-referenced tests based on these standards rather than norm-based relative rankings (which compare one student with another).

  3. Learning standards - Wikipedia

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    Learning standards can also take the form of learning objectives and content-specific standards and controlled vocabulary, [4] as well as metadata about content. [5] There are technical standards for encoding these standards that deal with K-12 learning environments, [6] which are separate from those in higher education [7] and private business ...

  4. Academic standards - Wikipedia

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    Academic standards are the benchmarks of quality and excellence in education such as the rigour of curricula and the difficulty of examinations. [1] The creation of universal academic standards requires agreement on rubrics, criteria or other systems of coding academic achievement. [ 2 ]

  5. Philosophy of education - Wikipedia

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    Dewey wrote of the dualisms that plagued educational philosophy in the latter book: "Instead of seeing the educative process steadily and as a whole, we see conflicting terms. We get the case of the child vs. the curriculum; of the individual nature vs. social culture."

  6. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

  7. Education policy - Wikipedia

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    For example, researchers are affiliated with schools and departments of education, public policy, psychology, economics, sociology, and human development. Additionally, sociology, political science , economics, and law are all disciplines that can be used to better understand how education systems function, what their impacts are, and how ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Karyn Hascal, The Healing Place’s president and CEO, said she would never allow Suboxone in her treatment program because her 12-step curriculum is “a drug-free model. There’s kind of a conflict between drug-free and Suboxone.” For policymakers, denying addicts the best scientifically proven treatment carries no political cost.

  9. Backward design - Wikipedia

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    Ralph W. Tyler introduced the idea of "backward design" (without using this particular term) in 1949 when referring to a statement of objectives.A statement of objectives is used to indicate the kinds of changes in the student to be brought about so that instructional activities can be planned and developed in a way likely to attain these objectives.