La clasificación Internacional Normalizada de Educación, conocida por su acrónimo ISCED fue desarrollada en Estados Unidos en la década de los sesenta. Esta guía es una obra de referencia útil para estudiosos, profesores, investigadores de todo el mundo. Aunque la ISCED sufra cambios y modificaciones en el futuro, esta guía constituye una importante contribución a la investigación internacional sobre educación y sienta una base sólida para un futuro desarrollo.
The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America's obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including "Measure What Matters," and "Embrace Teachers"—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a "big book" that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.
Testimony from a Congressional hearing on drug education is presented in this document. After an opening statement by Representative Major R. Owens, statements are included by Representatives Jose E. Serrano and Cass Ballenger. Testimony and/or prepared statements from these individuals are included: (1) Joseph A. Fernandez, Chancellor, New York City Public Schools; (2) Joan Goodman, District Representative, United Federation of Teachers, Bronx (New York; (3) Davina Ragland and Walesca Sosa, senior high school students, Jane Adams Vocational High School, Bronx (New York); (4) Robert York, Acting Director for Program Evaluation in Human Service Areas, General Accounting Office; (5) Ozelious J. Clement, Director, Jackie Robinson Center for Physical Culture; (6) Vincent Giordano, Director, Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, New York City Public Schools; (7) D. Max McConkey, Director, Network, Inc.; (8) Thomas Connelly, Coordinator, Special Counseling Programs, Wappingers Central School District; (9) Gerald Edwards, Director, North East Regional Center for Drug Free Schools and Communities; and (10) Michael Kiltzner and Allan Y. Cohen, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. (ABL)
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