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Excerpts from the Senior Year Demonstration Resolution

Winter 2006

Excerpts from the Senior Year Demonstration Resolution

Whereas the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) Board of Education believes that all students who pass the requisite high school courses and demonstrate readiness for success beyond high school will have satisfied all state and local requirements for a fully accredited diploma; and

Whereas the WCCUSD Board of Education believes that academic achievement is far too complex to be accurately measured by any one method and that the California high school exit exam is only one of many viable ways for students to demonstrate their ability to be successful after high school...

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the WCCUSD Board of Education calls upon the Superintendent to work with students, teachers, staff, and parents to infuse the values and approaches of the Senior Year Demonstration within the high school curriculum.

Winter 2006

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Vol. 21, No. 2

Why We Banned Legos

Back to the Drawing Board for NCLB

Action Education

Australia Battles Privatization

A Framework for Understanding Ruby Payne

Savage Unrealities

What Names Us?

When the Teacher's a Fan, Who's on the Team?

Reclaiming Hidden History

Reaching Between the Lines

Why Aren't We Shocked?

The Future of Driving

Teachers in Oaxaca Face Repression and Violence

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