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Basic Training: A Determined Group of Parents Fight for a Traditional School.

Caudell, Lee Sherman – Northwest Education, 1997

After Deer Valley School District (Arizona) adopted a whole-language, discovery-based curriculum, parents who believed in a traditional "basics" curriculum established Valley Academy, a charter K-9 school serving 455 students. After struggling through administrative and financial problems, bad publicity, and interpersonal conflict, the principal…

Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Back to Basics, Bureaucracy, Charter Schools

All in the Family: A Back-to-Basics Charter School Provides Home Schoolers with a Choice They Can Embrace Whole-Heartedly.

Sherman, Lee – Northwest Education, 2001

A charter school in Kenai, Alaska, offers back-to-basics curriculum and direct instruction. The school has drawn many home-schoolers back to the public school system, and consistently scores high on standardized tests. The school's success is attributed to teachers' collaboration and common vision, continuity across grades, high academic…

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Back to Basics, Charter Schools, Conventional Instruction