Word: sidespread
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That was the shape of school reform 15 years ago The Los Angeles Board of Education established Westside and other alternative schools as an experimental response to sidespread parental dissatisfaction with the public schools. Traditional education--stressing conformity, arbittary discipline, and learning by rote had failed for many Progressive education, growing out of the social reflection that characterized the era, sought to do away with the centralized, bureaucratic, anonymous pubic school and replace it with a school whose role would be defined by the community, including the students, it served...