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EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

October 1983

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EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP loumal of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development October 1983

Volume 41, Numbes 2

HIGHER STANDARDS 4

A Rising Tide Ron Brandt We Can Raise Standards Herbert I \i alberg

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Thc Imlipact of Postsccondanr Adnmissions Policies oi Secondarn I dicahoiin hchael Kirst The Perils of a Silingc-lalnguiage Polic\ Gerald UIn ks The liddcil \geclda (ofthe Report oi IExccllelnce louis Goldman The Nes Basics for Excnonc' \ Slmlxposinim on Curricnulin Rccomnicidalltiiois of the Commission on E\cellncie Chester: Fiinn. Ir: Gordon I)onald.son: Barbara Benham T'Ie and Kenneth A rIe: ID)orlnna Brennanl Henri XI Brickell: W\\illiam G. Spad: Doon G(linres and Gordon Cawelti 1 he Ilipact of Ilncreasing Requircmcnits in Math aid Scincc Flhorda ASCI) Polioc Task Force on Increased High School Graduationu Requirements ()OnStandards and Public Polics: A Cone-crsation with .rthulr \\isc Ron Brandt The Academiic Indc Aaron N. \lalof The Kind of Schxools Wce Nccd Elliot \V. I isner A S. Ncill Rcmnclnbercd Herb Snitzer l1iberating ILcariig O()L. Dais. Ir. A Child at Risk 7Theodore Bradley "Miss Darc" Florence iWallach Freed Teaching Standards. or Standardi7ed Teaching' Linda Darling-Hammond and Arthur E. Wise lhe Gathering Storm:Teacher l esting anld Black Teachcrs \V atter Xercer WVh Colorado is Testing 1ceachers Callin \1 Frazier

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Excellence ill Huilmanities Teaching

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lic NTEF alid Professional Standards

Diane Rairrtch

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Bc!olnd Decodiiig: S!lithcsis of Research on Reading Comlprehelinsion Eveln R. Oka. alid Ann \Marie DeBritto

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REVIEWS BRIEFING Curriculuml Abstracts. William 1. Stewart and Conrad F' Troeprer. r: Curricullill T rends: Scieice. I.d \\ hite: I-dilcation anld the LaxI. Patricia \I Lines

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