The future of education
Subtitle: perspectives on national standards in America
By: Nina Cobb, editor ; with an introduction by Robert Orrill.
Contributors: Cobb, Nina Kressner.; College Entrance Examination Board.
Publisher: College Entrance Examination Board
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Education -- Standards -- United States.; Education and state -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The future of education had its genesis at the 1994 Invitational Conference of the Forum on Standards and Learning"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Titanic structure or human scale : school reform at the close of the twentieth century / Robert Orrill; title: Curriculum ferment in the 1890s / Herbert M. Kliebard; title: Implications of subject-matter standards / Christopher T. Cross; title: The politics of national standards / Tom Loveless; title: The threat to freedom in Goals 2000 / Stephen Arons; title: Developing world-class education standards : some conceptual and political dilemmas / J. Myron Atkin; title: Curriculum and assessment standards : common measures or conversations? / Dennie Palmer Wolf; title: Policy and practice : the relations between governance and instruction / David K. Cohen and James P. Spillane; title: Goals 2000 and a reauthorized ESEA : national standards and accompanying controversies / Michael W. Kirst and James W. Guthrie; title: Teachers' professional development : critical colleagueship and the role of professional communities / Brian Lord; title: Teachers regulating themselves : teachers owning their standards / Philip A. Cusick; title: National curriculum content standards : the challenges for subject matter associations / Diane Massell; title: Problems and issues facing the national standards project in English / Miles Myers.