Reform in Education

Challenges in Systemic Education Reform

Reform is generating a great deal of excitement and energy is associated with many positive classroom changes. But policymakers and educators are also facing a number of challenges in designing and implementing the new policies. This policy brief examines these challenges as well as strategies states are using to address them. It draws from CPRE's studies of reform in 19 states and from discuss...

Engage students in education reform.

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Medical Education and Curriculum Reform:

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...

The reform of medical education.

A Reform of Nursing Education

1961 by the then Royal College of Nursing. The committee comprised 40 eminent Arsons representing the fields of nursing, medicine, education, sociology and ^ministration. Their report is a clear, concise and constructive contribution with a "new look", though the recommendations are not, of course, new in themselves the division service and education within the profession; the introduction of i...