Educating Americans For The 21st Century

Author : National Science Board (U.S.). Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN : UOM:39076006619527

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Educating Americans for the 21st Century: Source materials by National Science Board (U.S.). Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Pdf

Leading experts in the fields of science, mathematics and education present a plan for improving mathematics, science and technology education for all American elementary and secondary students so that their achievement is the best in the world by 1995. The Commission believes that while individual American schools and students excel in science and mathematics, the average American student is said to need a much firmer grounding at the elementary and secondary school levels. It notes that the most serious problem is a severe shortage of qualified teachers. Makes a number of recommendations and calls for stronger leadership on this issue through such means as a National Education Council reporting to the President.

Author : David Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781632869937

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Reinventing America's Schools by David Osborne Pdf

From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.

Author : Philip G. Altbach,Robert Oliver Berdahl,Robert O. Berdahl,Patricia J. Gumport
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801880351

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American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century by Philip G. Altbach,Robert Oliver Berdahl,Robert O. Berdahl,Patricia J. Gumport Pdf

This new edition explores current issues of central importance to the academy: leadership, accountability, access, finance, technology, academic freedom, the canon, governance, and race. Chapters also deal with key constituencies -- students and faculty -- in the context of a changing academic environment.

Author : National Science Board (U.S.). Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015024855820

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Educating Americans for the 21st Century by National Science Board (U.S.). Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UFL:31262047491153

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Educating Americans for the 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Science Board (U.S.). Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN : UOM:39076006619519

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Educating Americans for the 21st Century: A report to the American people and the National Science Board by National Science Board (U.S.). Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Pdf

Leading experts in the fields of science, mathematics and education present a plan for improving mathematics, science and technology education for all American elementary and secondary students so that their achievement is the best in the world by 1995. The Commission believes that while individual American schools and students excel in science and mathematics, the average American student is said to need a much firmer grounding at the elementary and secondary school levels. It notes that the most serious problem is a severe shortage of qualified teachers. Makes a number of recommendations and calls for stronger leadership on this issue through such means as a National Education Council reporting to the President.

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393247695

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In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria Pdf

CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education—how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning—precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers,Connie K. Chung
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612509242

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Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century by Fernando M. Reimers,Connie K. Chung Pdf

This book describes how different nations have defined the core competencies and skills that young people will need in order to thrive in the twenty-first-century, and how those nations have fashioned educational policies and curricula meant to promote those skills. The book examines six countries—Chile, China, India, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States—exploring how each one defines, supports, and cultivates those competencies that students will need in order to succeed in the current century. Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century appears at a time of heightened attention to comparative studies of national education systems, and to international student assessments such as those that have come out of PISA (the Program for International Student Assessment), led by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This book’s crucial contribution to the burgeoning field of international education arises out of its special attention to first principles—and thus to first questions: As Reimers and Chung explain, “much can be gained by an explicit investigation of the intended purposes of education, in what they attempt to teach students, and in the related questions of why those purposes and how they are achieved.” These questions are crucial to education practice and reform at a time when educators (and the students they serve) face unique, pressing challenges. The book’s detailed attention to such questions signals its indispensable value for policy makers, scholars, and education leaders today.

Author : Matia Finn-stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429965982

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Schools Of The 21st Century by Matia Finn-stevenson Pdf

An engaging discussion about the new roles schools are taking and how they are expanding their traditional mission.. n this timely book, Matia Finn-Stevenson and Edward Zigler argue that the federal government alone cannot address the need for child care and family support services that, like education, should be addressed locally. The authors use their Schools of the 21st Century (21C) program as an example of how schools can provide child care, outreach services, home visitations, and health and nutrition servicesin addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Whereas Part Two of the book discusses the authors Schools of the 21st Century program in considerable detail, Parts One and Three address a broader range of issues concerning the effects that early education has on later school success and the various policy and conceptual approaches that have been tried, both nationally and internationally, in an effort to reform schools. The authors also critically review the research on the effects of child care on childrens development and the importance of family support services. Included is a wealth of information on the research and practical applications of school reform initiatives in general and the implementation of child and family support services in particular. }In this timely book, Matia Finn-Stevenson and Edward Zigler argue that the federal government alone cannot address the need for child care and family support services that, like education, should be addressed locally. The authors use their Schools of the 21st Century (21C) program as an example of how schools can provide child care, outreach services, home visitations, and health and nutrition servicesin addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic.Conceptualized in 1987 in response to the child care crisis in this country, 21C has been implemented in over 600 schools in seventeen states. However, schools involvement with increasingly younger children is not without controversy. The authors also address questions regarding evaluation and effective implementation and scale-up strategies, and consider what changes in teacher training programs should occur to prepare teachers for working in schools of the twenty-first century; what provisions should be made to accommodate for the need to staff schools with personnel trained in early child development; and what changes need to be made in the financial structures of schools to accommodate child care and support services.Whereas Part Two of the book discusses the authors Schools of the 21st Century program in considerable detail, Parts One and Three address a broader range of issues concerning the effects that early education has on later school success and the various policy and conceptual approaches that have been tried, both nationally and internationally. Finn-Stevenson and Zigler also critically review the research on the effects of child care on children and other school reform initiatives that have been implemented in schools. Schools of the 21st Century is an engaging discussion about the new roles schools are taking and how they are expanding their traditional mission.

Author : Dan H. Wishnietsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015054257111

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American Education in the 21st Century by Dan H. Wishnietsky Pdf

Author : National Science Board (U.S.). Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : LCCN:84602050

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Educating Americans for the 21st Century by National Science Board (U.S.). Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Pdf

Author : Thomas L Good
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412950114

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21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook by Thomas L Good Pdf

Via 100 entries or 'mini-chapters,' the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on Education will highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of education ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st Century.

Author : Philip G. Altbach,Robert O. Berdahl,Robert Oliver Berdahl,Patricia J. Gumport
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801880343

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American Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century by Philip G. Altbach,Robert O. Berdahl,Robert Oliver Berdahl,Patricia J. Gumport Pdf

This new edition explores current issues of central importance to the academy: leadership, accountability, access, finance, technology, academic freedom, the canon, governance, and race. Chapters also deal with key constituencies -- students and faculty -- in the context of a changing academic environment.

Author : Jamie Merisotis
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780795345937

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America Needs Talent by Jamie Merisotis Pdf

The author of Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines presents “a sharp, timely blueprint for unleashing the potential of millions of Americans” (Bruce Kats, Founding Director oof the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program). The president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, Jamie Merisotis is a leading voice in philanthropy, higher education, and public policy. In America Needs Talent, he explains the choices that must be made on all levels—in government, education, and the private sector, as well as by individuals—to usher in a new era of success and innovation in America. What if you paid for education based on what you actually learned, instead of the time you spent in class? What if visa applicants were treated like potential assets to our nation’s talent pool, rather than potential threats monitored by Homeland Security? Merisotis proposes bold ideas to successfully deploy the world’s most talented people, revitalize urban hubs, encourage private sector innovation, and power America’s knowledge economy in the 21st century.

Author : Vicki Ebeling
Publisher : Vicki Ebeling
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1893385116

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Educating America in the 21st Century by Vicki Ebeling Pdf

For Parents: Learn what you can do for your child, how the education system works, what free special services are available. For Professionals Who Help Children: Learn how you can advise parents, help students improve at school, handle crisis situations competently. For Students: Understand how you learn and remember, how your opinion counts, how to get into college. For Everyone: Discover how we can improve U.S. education, and how you can make a difference.