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On “State Education Statistics”

Journal of Educational Statistics, 1985
In January 1984 and again in January 1985, then Secretary of Education Bell released the table “State Education Statistics.” These tables contained a variety of education indicators, among them average SAT or ACT scores for each state. In this paper we examine these scores to see if they can be used for state-by-state comparisons to aid in the ...
Howard Wainer   +3 more
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State Departments of Education Policies on Consultation in Special Education: The State of the States

Remedial and Special Education, 1987
Recent data indicate that more than two-thirds of our nation's handicapped students are receiving the majority of their education in regular classes. This investigation examined state departments of education policies on consultation in five special education program and personnel areas: (a) special education service delivery models, (b) consultation ...
J. Frederick West, Pamela A. Brown
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Postmodernism and state education

Journal of Education Policy, 1994
Like other Parisian theoretical exports before it (structuralism and post-structuralism), postmodernism has been relatively slow to penetrate the intellectual discourse of Anglo-American sociology, and even slower to make its mark on the sociology of education. However, in the last five years the ideas of Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard have
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Education and the Modern State

Social Philosophy and Policy, 2011
AbstractIn this paper I show how modern democratic states are likely to be inimical to traditional liberal education. Drawing on theoretical considerations and recent history I show how any attempt to promote traditional educational values through state interventions, such as national curricula or state regulation, is bound to be illusory.
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Agricultural Education: United States Bureau of Education. State Departments of Education. State Legislation

The Elementary School Teacher, 1909
Agricultural education receives the attention of the Bureau of Education in several ways. These may conveniently be grouped under three heads: publications, land-grant colleges, and legislation. Having little administrative authority except that relating to land-grant colleges the Bureau has confined its efforts mainly to its publications and ...
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The State and Education

The Australian Quarterly, 1994
Contestability CONTEMPORARY liberal-democratic states have in essence a choice between three roles in the promotion of education. The first is to require that parents ensure their children are in situations deemed educational either for a given number of years or until certain stipulated levels of attainment have been achieved, but to refrain from ...
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Education and the State

2008
Education is typically viewed synonymously with formal schooling. Over the past century, state-provided schooling has become the norm for the industrialized world. In the United States, approximately 90 percent of children are educated in schools that are publicly financed and operated (Toma 1996).
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