Additionally, the selection of specific areas of inquiry for teachers, through the

Within every school or classroom, there is always a tension between creating a flexible and responsive community of individual learners and adhering to focused, validated, objective standards determined by outside professional sources. (Chaskin, 2005) But even though standards cannot nor should not be rigidly applied, having a research based blueprint for how a district should operate is key to ensure that the "ideology of associational action and local democracy on the one hand" and "an adherence to essentially rational-bureaucratic approaches to planning and implementation" is kept in a state of balance, and students are adequately prepared to move on into a new educational community and teachers have

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