DESIGNING EFFECTIVE CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LESSONS FROM PAST EXPERIENCE

Project English: Lessons From Curriculum Reform Past

Project English was born in 1962, a late addition to the curriculum reform movement in the USA that grew out of the Cold War race to dominate outer space. The Oregon Curriculum Study Center, one of the initial 12 Project English centers, took as its goal the complete reformation of the secondaryschool language arts curriculum and the education of its teachers. During its 6-year run, the Oregon ...

Lessons learned from past experience with intensive livestock management systems.

The main impetus for 'modern' intensive animal production occurred after the Second World War, when Western governments developed policies to increase the availability of cheap, safe food for their populations. Livestock benefit under intensive husbandry by protection from environmental extremes and predators, and better nutritional and health management. Nevertheless, there are costs to the an...

Racism in the National Health Service: lessons from the past.

Racism in the National Health Service: lessons from the past Dr McNaught is right to point out examples of racism in the NHS (December 2004 JRSM1). But what to do about it? Maybe we can learn some lessons from the past. Today there is an over-representation of black people in the mental health system but in the 1960s Irish people were over-represented.2 Psychiatrists thought that the prevalence...

Civil Service Reform in Africa: Mixed Results After 10 Years

Lessons from the past ?

During the years following the Second World War, members of the English teaching community in London, often within the London Association for the Teaching of English, conducted work which led to a “new” English for the emerging comprehensive school system. Such work was rooted in the belief that English teaching should be responsive to the culture, class, language and experience of children. Co...