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...improved. This year, for the first time, Linda Vista placed 27 children in gifted-student classes, and next fall will add 24 more. Three multilingual aides regularly visit parents to talk about what they can do to help their children achieve. "The idea behind site-based management is to make the community part of the process," says Nadeau. RJR Nabisco agrees: last April the company awarded Linda Vista a $550,555 Next Century Schools grant to continue its outstanding work...
...slowest, an approach Hohmann calls "teamstreaming." Teaching together takes more time, commitment and compromise, but it is rapidly becoming the norm at Fairdale -- a development that pleases ninth-grade teacher Brenda Butler. "I love the changes," she says. "We finally have an opportunity to voice our opinions and make decisions about student learning...
Teachers and administrators must also take care to use their freedom creatively, evaluating everything from the length of a typical class period to how math should be taught. "Restructuring won't make much impact on learning and teaching if we just tinker with the system," says San Diego superintendent Thomas Payzant...
...taken the notion a step further, asking principals and teachers to submit ideas for creating 49 new schools from the ground up. Seven are now in the planning-and-building stage. More innovations are sure to come. School districts may find that giving teachers and parents the right to make decisions about education is like dancing with a bear: once you start, you cannot decide to stop...
...into the nightmare underworld of pushers and addicts, and finally surfaces in another kind of purgatory: jail. Rush (Random House; 260 pages; $18.95), Wozencraft's tale of temptation, fall and rehab, sometimes gropes for expression, as if the recollections were too painful for words. In every sense, this should make one hell of a film...