Talk:Standards-based education reform

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Merging is a good idea - but both articles need a lot of editing and improvement. Madmedea 18:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Vision" section almost incomprehensible

If all the buzzwords and jargon in the "vision" section are really necessary, could we at least have some translation? For example: "Hands-on" activities, while essential, are not enough. Students must have "minds-on" experiences as well. What on earth is that supposed to mean? --61.214.155.14 05:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Hands-on doesn't necessarily mean minds-on but it is usually a component. The essence of hands-on is that at some point the student must manipulate a piece or part of the experiment or problem that they are solving. The idea within the reform is get the students using higher order thinking to make the necessary changes to their own thinking to form either a solution or a hypothesis on the experiment or problem. This higher order thinking can't come before the student has all of the skills in place to preform the experiment or to find a solution to the problem.Aggieg 23:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)Aggieg

[edit] History

A new editor wrote a very upbeat history section today. I think it's appropriate to have a history section in general. Are there any good sources available for history? It would be nice to say what education reforms immediately preceded it, when it became popular (again: most educational reforms have appeared off and on for at least two centuries), and so forth. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:13, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
The history section reads like an editorial. It sounds like the thesis statement on an article rather than an informative encyclopedic statement.--71.176.142.32 (talk) 01:51, 3 June 2008 (UTC)