Since 1966 when Donald Eichhorn introduced the term transescent, meaning a young person in transition from childhood to adolescence, the educational field has been replete with discussions of effective ways to educate middle level learners. This period spanning the early 1960s is generally recognized as the era that launched the modern middle school movement. Although the 1960s movement initiat...

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In 2002 the government decided that Continuing Medical Education (CME) will be compulsory for all physicians. The reform has been implemented progressively since then. Compulsory Continuing Medical Education (CCME) includes different types of programs which aim to maintain and improve doctors? medical knowledge. Doctors are asked to participate in a number of educational programs/activities to ...

The need for educational reform has led to much research documenting the value of experiential learning and creative problem solving to increase relevance and motivation in learning. Design, which may be succinctly defined as purposeful thought and action, can serve as a framework and catalyst for teaching and learning strategies that promote innovative, high end thinking, cooperative teamwork,...

Research on implementation around the world indicates that many educational reforms designed to improve the quality of schooling have been more rhetorical than substantive in their impact on the organisation of schools and classrooms (Weiler, 1998; Fullan, 1991; Snyder, Bolin and Zumwalt, 1992). Schools and classrooms do change, but the extent and direction of change is not always consistent wi...

Explains that the Canadian federal government has recently cut $800 million in transfer payments for education to the provinces, with further cuts planned for the next two years. Consequently, there is growing concern among administrators and professional educators as to the likely impact of these developments in Ontario. Examines the impact of incremental resource reductions on an Ontario boar...

Evaluating the impact of early years educational reform in Wales to age seven: the potential use of the UK Millennium Cohort Study Chris Taylor, Heather Joshi & Caroline Wright a Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK b Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK Published online: ...