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Author Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence.

Title The path to a larger life : creating Kentucky's educational future : a report of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
Edition 2nd ed
Published Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 151 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments and Contributors; Introduction; Chapter I-Teachers and the Teaching Profession; Classroom & School Conditions for Teaching; Continuing Professional Growth & Development; Professional Advancement & Evaluation; Teacher Education; Chapter II-Reconsidering Goals & Curriculum; School Goals; Curriculum; Reforming High School Learning; Extracurricular Activities and Athletics; School Flexibility & Incentives; Adult Illiteracy; Gifted and Talented Students; Chapter III-Leadership & Governance; Chapter IV-A New Commitment to Children & Youth
PreventionResponses; Chapter V-Indicators of Effective Schools; Chapter VI-Vocational & Community College Education; Chapter VII-Finance; Appendix A-Indicators of Effective Schools; Appendix B-Education Reforms: 1984-88; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary In the spring of 1989, the Kentucky Supreme Court declared the state's entire system of common schools to be unconstitutional-an epochal decision that will have enormous impact on the future of the commonwealth and its citizens. In the wake of that decision, educational leaders, legislators, and concerned citizens struggle to define Kentucky's educational needs and to find the means to achieve them. The Path to a Larger Life, made up of recommendations from a volunteer citizens' organization, offers the most sweeping analysis of Kentucky's educational needs published in this century. Concentra
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Education and state -- Kentucky
Education -- Economic aspects -- Kentucky
Public schools -- Kentucky
Teachers -- Kentucky
School administrators -- Kentucky
Education, Higher -- Kentucky
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
EDUCATION -- General.
Education and state
Education -- Economic aspects
Education, Higher
Public schools
School administrators
Teachers
Bildungspolitik
Schulpolitik
Kentucky
Kentucky
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813148922
0813148928