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EDUCATIONAL REFORM PROPOSALS Page 7
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Introduction Policy Policy Adv
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Advancing technology and world competition are now demanding major reform in the educational sector. The quality of America’s schools will determine whether our children hold highly compensated, high-skilled jobs when they reach adulthood. Moreover, it is widely believed that workers in the next century will require not just a larger set of facts or a larger repertoire of specific skills, but the capacity to readily acquire new knowledge, to solve new problems, and to employ creativity and critical thinking in the design of new approaches to existing problems (Report to the President, 1997, p. 5). |
Continued from left column Reform efforts based on challenging academic
standards and assessments linked to those standards are currently underway
in schools across the nation (Executive Summary, 1998, p.
10). But
their success depends upon putting the right student in the right learning
environment for the right reasons—which is not being currently
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Therefore, by adopting
this Compromised Policy Proposal,
it will provide the best opportunity for a win-win situation of
educational democracy, equality, and success for all students,
parents, teachers, and school districts across America.