I recently gave a keynote address to a group of New Zealand educators entitled “Equity With Excellence: Confronting the Dilemmas and Celebrating the Possibilities” (Riley, 2000). In preparing the paper, I was drawn immediately to the writings of American educators like James Gallagher and Harry Passow. I searched through my files from my doctoral studies and reread National Excellence (U.S. Department of Education, 1993).
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