A prologue to educational reform

2 Educational Reform

Professional development: a key to Kentucky’s educational reform effort

Despite its essential role in educational reform, professional development typically does not receive adequate support in systemic reform efforts. This article presents an exception—a state that incorporated professional development as a central priority in its reform effort and four schools that used state resources to build their capacity for enacting the reform agenda. We describe central fe...

GIS: A Key to Educational Reform or Just Another Fad?

The history of educational reform is littered with examples of failed efforts to reform schools through the integration of technology. In many cases, this lack of success can be attributed to an over-reliance on the technology and a failure to ground the work in meaningful learning experiences. In this paper, the potential for GIS-enhanced inquiry to meet educational standards in science, mathe...

Prologue to professionalis̄m. A history of nursing

ANNA THERESA COSSLETT, The "scientific movement" and Victorian literature, Brighton, Harvester Press; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 188, £20.00. Interaction between arts and sciences has long been regarded as one of the characteristic features of the Romantic era. The scientific writings by the poet Coleridge and the poetical experiments by the scientist Davy are among the ...

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