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Fishman, Andrea R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Compares pedagogical practices in an eighth-grade middle school classroom with those a of one-room Amish school studied in an earlier work. Taken together, the two settings suggest that one must seek "the present status and performance of the U.S. education system" not in the usual indicators, but in the contradictory beliefs and…
Descriptors: Amish, Beliefs, Community, Competition
