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Peer reviewedSternberg, Betty J. – NASSP Bulletin, 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
