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ERIC Number: EJ606440
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0192-6365
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The Right Stuff of Schools: How Our High Schools Can Become Better Communities for Our Children.
Sternberg, Betty J.
NASSP Bulletin, v84 n613 p61-75 Feb 2000
Like other parents who phoned her at work, a dedicated associate commissioner of education grew increasingly frustrated with a system that failed to challenge her children. She enrolled them in a private alternative school that stressed community and viewed education as a privilege demanding great student effort. (MLH)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community, Helping Relationship, High Schools, Homework, Interdisciplinary Approach, Nontraditional Education, Private Schools, Public Schools, Small Classes, Small Schools, Student Responsibility, Teacher Expectations of Students, Underachievement
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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