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From Rhetoric to Reality: Opportunity-to-Learn Standards and the Integrity of American Public School Reform

Focusing on national policy and practice, this paper suggests key recommendations for consideration in the context of standards-based reform. The reform produced teachers who are multiculturally literate; re-assess ability grouping and tracking practices, reduced K-3 class size and elementary and secondary school size, and expanded and improve federal compensatory education programs; and incorporate school reform into broader social reform.

• Contributor: Fritzberg, Gregory J. // Teacher Education Quarterly, 28(1), pp.169-87 Win 2001

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• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Group Practice & Professional Development
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Teaching Design & Practices
• Network/channel: NIUSI: School Organizational Effort: Culture of Change and Improvement

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