Where's waldo? The conspicuous absence of higher education from school reform and one state's response

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 309-314

  Conley, David T ^a  

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References (7)

1. See, for example, Bruce L. Wilson and Gretchen B. Rossman, Mandating Academic Excellence (New York: Teachers College Press, 1993).
2. In the two most frequently cited examples of large-scale state-level reform, South Carolina in the Eighties and Kentucky in the Nineties, higher education was conspicuously absent. Florida's Blueprint 2000 may be an exception to this generalization. Several states have recently demonstrated an increasing interest in the engagement of higher education in reform, most notably Wisconsin, Washington, New York, Georgia, California, Maryland, Ohio, and Colorado.
3. This practice may help explain the high correlations between some admissions measures, such as high school grade-point average, and freshman performance. It's worth noting that most predictive relationships don't hold much beyond the end of the freshman year, when students are truly engaged in the college curriculum.
4. Evans Clinchy, "Higher Education: The Albatross Around the Neck of Our Public Schools," Phi Delta Kappan, June 1994, p. 747.
5. The first four proficiencies are organized under separate domains for purposes of clarity but should be integrated in practice. Each proficiency is accompanied by a number of indicators that provide greater detail. These indicators are not listed here.
6. The PASS report, along with all other documents produced by the project, including the proficiencies and the project's newsletter, can be obtained via the Internet (http://pass-osshe.uoregon.edu). Hard copies can be ordered for a nominal fee from the PASS Project, Oregon State System of Higher Education, P.O. Box 3175, Eugene, OR 97403-0175; ph. 503/346-5799.
7. Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan, "Preliminary Findings from a Five-Year Study of the Coalition of Essential Schools," Phi Delta Kappan, February 1993, pp. 486-89.