Sentences with phrase «sponsored curriculum reform»
As these less - demanding, nonintellectual courses proliferated, a new «movement» was born, the Life Adjustment Movement, a federally sponsored curriculum reform effort that began soon after World War II.
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Although 43 states are employing strategies that encourage elementary teachers to teach higher - order thinking skills, few have developed comprehensive policies for reforming the curriculum to include such skills in the early grades, a study by a federally sponsored research center shows.
Yet critics back in the 1960s said the federally - sponsored reform was coercive because adoption of these curricula met conditions for eligibility for other federal grants and contracts and districts sometimes adopted them, in historian Jon Schaffarzick's words, «for fear of losing other federal support.»
He also sponsored experimental programs in group teaching, programmed learning, educational television, and curriculum reform.
The Foundation has supported annual national conferences on education reform sponsored by the Bloustein School of Public Planning and Policy of Rutgers University, and has awarded research grants on school improvement, educational history, curriculum development, and medical education.