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How Our Schools Could Be

Standards, Top-Down Mandates, and Grass-Roots Communities

By Deborah Meier

Excerpts from Meier’s essay in the 1997 book “Transforming Public Education,” in which she explores the effect that top-down reforms have on the development of vibrant schools.

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Volume 11, No.4

Summer 1997