Since our Administration placed education at the top of the national agenda, we've been seeing a grassroots revolution that promises to strengthen every school in the country. From Maine to California, parents, teachers, school officials, and state and local officeholders have begun vigorous work to improve the fundamentals—not fancy budgets structures, not frills in the curriculum, but teaching and learning. In the words of Secretary Bell, “There is currently in progress the greatest, most far—reaching, and, I believe, the most promising reform and renewal of education we have seen since the turn of the century.
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Note on omission in reference in this column of May, 1984: Brookover, W., Personal communication, August 31, 1983.
