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Standards and Schooling in the United States: An Encyclopedia

By Joe L. Kincheloe , Danny K. Weil

Book information

Publisher
ABC-Clio Inc
Year
2002
ISBN
1576077047, 9781576077047
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3962820 bytes)
Pages
1223\1223
Time added
2011-01-26 19:25:26

Description

Overview: The nation's demand for more sophisticated knowledge workers who can easily access information using computers requires that they be able to interpret that information, judge and assess it, and give it meaning. In short, students must be taught how to think. Is education as it now exists in the United States a mere memorization and regurgitation of facts? If so, is this a pseudo-education?

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