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Caudell, Lee Sherman – Northwest Education, 1997
After Deer Valley School District (Arizona) adopted a whole-language, discovery-based curriculum, parents who believed in a traditional "basics" curriculum established Valley Academy, a charter K-9 school serving 455 students. After struggling through administrative and financial problems, bad publicity, and interpersonal conflict, the principal…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Back to Basics, Bureaucracy, Charter Schools
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Raywid, Mary Anne; Miletta, Maureen – Urban Review, 1992
Offers a fictionalized account of the development, within an elementary school, of four distinctive schools-within-schools. Questions and issues arising in developing such programs are discussed; the theme of each of these four is described, and advantages that staff find in the arrangement are presented. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Art Education, Asian Americans, Back to Basics, Bilingual Education