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Curriculum and Reforms, 2008.
An analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA).
2,344 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 72.95
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This paper discusses some of the reforms that have been made to the curriculum taught in schools in the United States. It begins by discussing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which was signed in 2002 by President Bush. It looks at the aims of the NCLB Act and the arguments against it. It then discusses the aims, successes and issues with the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) of 2004.
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"The National Commitee of Parents and Advocates organized to protect IDEA does voice one additional concern over the 2004 amendments to the IDEA. While there was once a provision for full funding of the program for the schools, there is now only partial funding through the federal government. This is a cause for concern for many districts that are struggling with existent issues and that will now be required to make changes that will put a strain on already tight budgets ("IDEA 2004", 2004, para. 3). This concern, however, is minimal when it is considered that there are students that are not receiving an adequate education in a national educational system that is supposed to be one of the finest in the world and that has obviously been remiss in its efforts to teach all students."
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Curriculum Reform in the United States, 2003.
Discusses the possibility and feasibility of comprehensive curriculum reform in the United States' educational system.
6,859 words (approx. 27.4 pages), 27 sources, APA, $ 155.95
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This paper examines the American curriculum today, noting that it can be viewed as having remained substantially the same in form within, while undergoing enormous pressures to change from without. From such experimental programs as the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka Plan, and the Gary Plan, and from the pioneering work of Francis W. Parker and, notably, John Dewey, which ushered in the "progressive education" of the 1920s and 1930s, American schools, curricula, and teacher training have changed in favor of more flexible and cooperative methods. These new approaches have been pursued within a school that is seen as an overall learning community. The attempt to place the nature and experience of the child and the present life of the society at the center of school activity has been a primary focus of this approach.
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"According to several studies in the last 10 years, the use of newer forms of assessment have provided an increasing alignment between what is being taught and what is being assessed. Anderson et al. point out that if assessment continues to advance, teachers should no longer feel compelled to ?teach to tests? because tests will be more in harmony with good teaching practices. In the past, there was clear evidence that teachers frequently narrowed their curriculum just to improve test scores. Therefore, students who are engaged in programs of instruction using quality literature as a basis for reading, comparing, reflecting, and writing will clearly have an advantage on new forms of reading assessment."
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Curriculum Reform, 2004.
Discusses curriculum reform in colleges and universities.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at how a variety of factors influence the curriculum changes at colleges and universities and how the universities must respond to these influences. The paper also compares the regular GPA evaluation and general requirements, major, and electives method, with a more comprehensive and portfolio building approach.
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"Changes in the requirements of employers in the nature of society and even in fads and trends all influence the design of college curriculum. Colleges and universities must keep pace with the times or suffer from decreased demand for their services, measurable as declining enrollments. Changing a curriculum to address these concerns is made more complex by the fact that colleges are being challenged to devise curriculum reform efforts that enhance their innate capacity to ensure that students graduating or completing a..."
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Curriculum Reform.
This paper discusses various political actions taken to reform curriculum in the United States and England.
4,430 words (approx. 17.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 116.95
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The paper explains that systemic reform in education is a concept that has emerged in education policy over the last ten years throughout many nations; regardless of the geographical setting, it embodies three integral components: 1) the promotion of ambitious student outcomes for all students, 2) the alignment of policy approaches and the actions of various policy institutions to promote such outcomes ,and 3) the restructuring of the governance system to support improved achievement. The author reviews five pieces of legislation designed to encourage comprehensive educational reform throughout the U.S. by appropriating federal funds to entice the states to join voluntarily in the reform movement and by supporting opportunities for all to learn and achieve, formative summative assessment, professional development of teachers and administrators, school-based management and accountability, systemic programs of school-to-work transition, safer schools, and educational research to support these provisions. The paper states that educational reforms in the United Kingdom are sufficiently different from the U.S. discussed above; of all the educational inequalities regarding policy-making, gender has shown the most dramatic shift in the United Kingdom.
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"In order to ensure improvement throughout the educational system in the United States, the National Goals Panel was established in 1990 and recognized the need for the development of "new, clear and ambitious standards for the educational achievement of all students." A few months later Congress established the National Council on Education Standards and Testing, a committee that recommended the creation of a voluntary national standard and a voluntary national standard of student assessments. This Panel adopted a charter for a National Education Standards and Assessment Council (NESAC). The mission of the NESAC was to "ensure that the many standard-setting activities currently underway move forward expeditiously and reflect a broad national consensus about what American students should know and be able to do if they are to achieve at world-class levels.""
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Corporate Greed and Business School Reforms, 2002.
The paper disusses the need for reforms in business school curriculums to include subjects such as business ethics, in the wake of the recent spate of dishonest business practices.
2,513 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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The paper shows that in the wake of recent dishonest practices by Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Xerox, Qwest, Arthur Andersen and Merck, many people are asking how businessmen, believed to be so well educated and leaders in corporate America, lacked the moral courage to seek and state the truth. It shows how business ethics has been thrown to the side as a wild-wild-west form of capitalism has taken hold on America's corporate leaders. This corporate malfeasance has cost thousands of jobs, trillions of dollars in stockholder value, and a skepticism of our once revered free economic system. This paper shows show why a lack of business ethics is such a far-reaching problem in our society and suggests reforms in the business school curriculum to help instill responsibility and accountability in our business leaders. It also shows how consumer education classes would help protect individuals from becoming victims of corporate greed.
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"Everywhere we look corporate America is bombarding us with advertising in the hopes of creating demand for their relatively unneeded products. Britney Spears dancing around selling Pepsi, the Dell Computers ?Dude you?re getting a Dell? guy, and the billboards for SKYY vodka with images of sexy supermodels are used to create desires for individuals to increase their spending and sink further into debt. One of the underlying problems that corporations have had is that even if they bombard us with sexual images that sell products is that our demand can only be as big as our pocket books. Corporate America then came up with the idea of credit cards, which eased the liquidity problems. An article entitled ?Corporate Power and the Evolution of Consumer Credit? appearing in the December 2000 issue of The Journal of Economic Issues, John Watkins, professor of Economics at Westminster College, describes how corporate power has perpetuated the debt crisis in America."
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The School of Performing Arts at John Paul College, 2005.
A critique of the curriculum and reform processes implemented at this school.
4,525 words (approx. 18.1 pages), 32 sources, APA, $ 117.95
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This paper examines the reforms implemented at the School of Performing Arts at John Paul College, which attempted to move the school away from a product-based curriculum to a process-based curriculum. The paper explains why these reforms were implemented and talks about why they have not managed to change the performance-based ideology operating at the school and have simply changed the operating context from being performance-based to being technically-based.
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"Music is so diverse in Australia that is discussion of learning theorists is most pertinent. The diversity in educational approach is so wide that the notion of a structural focus is very important as there is a clear lack of a homogeneous approach in both the academic and instrumental contexts. At the heart of learning theorists is the focus on these elements. The writers own beliefs in the significance of environmental factors enhance this opinion, particularly when discussing certain categories of learning theorists."
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John Dewey and Education, 2004.
An analysis of John Dewey?s influence on curriculum reforms.
1,576 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper provides a scholarly overview of John Dewey?s educational philosophy and standard agenda model, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
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"From the earliest years of the nation?s history, John Dewey and others have conceived education to be the greatest of all the active agents of a democratic people. ?All major educational philosophies continue, although from disparate points of view, to uphold this conception? (Bramfeld 1955:387). As a result, the American curriculum today can be viewed as having remained substantially the same in form within while undergoing enormous pressures to change from without. From such experimental programs as the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka Plan, and the Gary Plan, and from the pioneering work of Francis W. Parker and notably John Dewey, which ushered in the "progressive education" of the 1920s and '30s, American schools, curricula, and teacher training have changed in favor of more flexible and cooperative methods (Devitas & Sola 1989). These new approaches have been pursued within a school seen as an overall learning community. The attempt to place the nature and experience of the child and the present life of the society at the center of school activity has been a primary focus of this approach. Most curriculum reforms have attempted to accentuate academic basics, particularly mathematics, science, and language, as well as the "new basics," including computers (Marsh & Willis 1999)."
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Curriculum in the Classroom, 2005.
A look at the definition of curriculum and the role the teacher plays in curriculum decision making.
1,631 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper provides an exploration of curriculum in the classroom. It discusses how school-based curriculum development is one of the many tasks that school staff are now responsible for as a result of school- based management and how teachers' responsibility for curriculum decision-making is now extended beyond their own classrooms to whole school initiatives.
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Defining Curriculum
The Teacher's Role in Curriculum Decision-Making
Factors Shaping Teachers' Curriculum Decision-Making Space
Impact of Recent National Trends on Curriculum Decision-Making
Proposed Interview Questions
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"Outcomes-Based Education is a curriculum approach that inverts traditional planning, focussing on the outcomes stakeholders wish students to demonstrate as a result of their education (Brady, 1996). Once these desired outcomes have been identified, the challenge presented to schools, teachers, parents and students is to determine how they will ensure that these outcomes are achieved and demonstrated by all students. Lorenzen (1998, p.1) clarifies this process saying, "All curriculum and teaching decisions are made based on how best to facilitate the desired outcome." In this educational approach, the focus is no longer on what has been taught, but rather, what the students are able to demonstrate they have learnt."
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Definitions of Curriculum, 2008.
An analysis of the definition of curriculum and the importance of taking into account the sociological and ideological aspects of the concept.
817 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper examines the concept of curriculum and provides the writer's definition of it. In so doing, the paper outlines why conceptions of curriculum which focus predominantly upon describing it as course syllabi and learning modules are inadequate in large measure because they fail to take into account the sociological and ideological aspects of the concept. The paper also discusses E.A. Todd's definition of curriculum in "Curriculum Approaches and Definitions" and argues that it is overly broad and insufficiently descriptive.
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What is Curriculum?
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"In closing, the preceding several pages have outlined this writer's conception of what the term "curriculum" really means. In so doing, what it is hoped has been revealed is just how enormous in scope the term really is and how merely confining one's understanding of it to course outlines, course modules and to technical competencies taught (and hopefully learned) is to really overlook many of the ideological and sociological aspects of curriculum. In the end, the concept "curriculum" is really an enormous and enormously important one."
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The Hidden Curriculum, 2005.
This paper discusses the hidden curriculum, which is concerned with imparting to the students the society's norms, values and culture.
1,525 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that the effects of the hidden curriculum are often unnoticed, though its influence on educational institutions can be profound, impacting the behavior, both students and the instructor, often resulting in a less then optimal learning environment. The author points out that, in the United States, the hidden curriculum imparts respect for authority, good conduct and discipline by the organization of the classroom itself with the teacher seated at the front, which implies a hierarchy. The paper suggests that teachers and students can develop a critical awareness of the hidden curriculum by recognizing the many factors, which become part of the hidden curriculum, such as the media, and by being aware of the effects the hidden curriculum can have on topics such as race, class and gender.
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Hidden Curriculum
Effects of the Hidden Curriculum
Awareness
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"As a tool for socialization, the hidden curriculum is an important means for preparing students to take on social roles. Jackson (1968), for example, believed that the values taught in the hidden curriculum provided students with a strong foundation to take on the working world. In most American schools, for example, students are expected to concentrate on their own work and to excel, rather than take time to tutor slower students. These practices prepare students for the competition inherent in the American business world and American society in general."
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The Role of the Curriculum Coordinator, 2002.
This paper is a review of literature in support of a proposed research project defining the role the curriculum coordinator.
4,540 words (approx. 18.2 pages), 18 sources, APA, $ 118.95
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This paper explains that there is an extensive body of literature discussing the roles of the curriculum coordinator, but there is no consensus on what that role entails. The paper stresses the importance of role theory in issues of position definition. The author states that the proposed research will examine the perceptions of the role of curriculum coordinator held by teachers, principals, vice-principals and curriculum coordinators themselves and will test whether these perceptions differ in relation to the perceivers' position within their schools.
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Introduction
Role Theory: Theoretical and Historical Research
Applications of Role Theory to Organizations, Institutions and Educational Institutions
Application to Organizations/Institutions
Direct Application to Educational Institutions
Application of Role Theory to Role of Curriculum Coordinator
Perceptions of the Role of Curriculum Coordinators
Summary and Conclusions
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"In some of the earliest research on role theory in direct relation to educational institutions, Biddle (1961) applied the theory to the role of the public school teacher and the relationships between the teacher's role and the problems of teacher recruitment. Specifically, the study examined teacher differences in teacher roles as perceived by teachers, college education majors and college students in other fields. The assumption underlying the study was that occupational choice was most often made because of role concepts and expectations. Questionnaires were used to elicit respondents' views of positive norms, negative norms, and expectations for teacher behavior in a variety of settings and situations."
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Multicultural Curriculum, 2003.
A position paper on multicultural curriculum development.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper is a position paper on multicultural curriculum. The paper discusses what a multicultural curriculum is and why it is needed in today's multicultural classrooms. It looks at the division among those who support a multicultural curriculum and those who don't. The paper briefly discusses how to teach the multicultural curriculum.
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"According to Gollnick and Chinn multicultural education has the purpose of further developing a democratic society by providing and promoting a respect and understanding of diverse ethnic and cultural groups ..."
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Curriculum Design, 2005.
A brief examination of the differences in curriculum design for adults returning to school or for regular high school students.
1,014 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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When a group of individuals designed to be members of a sales force for a brick and mortar multinational business go 'back to school,' the curriculum philosophy, implementation and design of the firm will be by definition much, much different in its objectives than the aims of the curriculum of a local school district. This paper explains that the difference will not simply be in the age of the individuals, as many older people are becoming part of the nation's high school and community college graduates. It points out that the primary difference will be that the curriculum for the corporation must be praxis-driven, rather than simply designed to foster learning in the students. The writer posits that customer service and retention and employee satisfaction and retention must be the prime objectives of such corporate training.
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"The sales curriculum must thus be designed with practicality and profits in mind. Academic learning is open ended, and designed to encourage students to ask 'what works.' But in corporate settings, management and outside consultants, as well as the past experiences of the company have already reached a consensus about what works. Now, the task of the curriculum is to enable the sales staff to implement the company's designed program to make effective sales. For example, in a school, one might ask, what is the best way to treat anxiety? A corporate training program for a sales staff would ask, how best to approach doctors in a hospital setting to sell our anti-anxiety medication? The skills and ability to learn in the sales staff are assumed, if human resource staff has done the HR job well by selecting qualified and competent employees. This assumption is not made in more conventional learning settings."
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Internationalizing the Community College Curriculum, 2002.
A discussion of the advantages of incorporating internationalization into the community college curriculum .
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper looks at the reasons an internationalized curriculum will benefit community colleges and their students. We are an increasingly global society, and it is getting more and more difficult for people to function in the business world without some sort of international understanding. It is becoming clear that if this nation is to compete in a global market, our students must be taught an international perspective. There are many techniques for integrating international objectives into coursework, and if done properly, these objectives can be seamlessly introduced into the existing curriculum of almost any college class. Several community colleges across the nation are already making an effort to incorporate internationalization into their college environment. When internationalization of the community college curriculum takes place, everyone benefits.
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