Exactly what you should expect from outcomes-based education.

Many of these goals were based on the principles of outcomes-based education, and not all of the goals were attained by the year 2000 as was intended.

It is based on the premise of outcomes-based education that students will reach higher levels of achievement when more is expected of them.

The movement toward "outcomes-based" education, as its supporters call it, is gaining ground in hundreds of school districts around the country.

Progressive reforms, such as outcomes-based education, which have put an emphasis on eliminating rote learning in favor of deep understanding have produced controversy among those favoring traditional rote methods.

The Jan. 9 article ("Groups Are Divided on Education Plan") indicated that I shared the concern by opponents that outcomes-based education "dumbed-down the curriculum."

No well-planned and well-executed outcomes-based education "system" should ever limit the progress of gifted and/or rapidly moving students.

The symposium met to provide a viewpoint on academic research priorities that could inform outcomes-based financial education, relevant public policy, and effective priorities leading to personal and family financial security.

This kind of "outcomes-based" education, which has caught on in hundreds of school districts around the nation, is now official policy in Pennsylvania and is under discussion in many other states.

The science standards is only one of a number of reforms organized around the principles of outcomes-based education.