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Controversy has swirled around the performance of public schools in America for more than thirty years with widespread agreement that improvements are needed. As schools face increased pressure to change, educators have been bombarded with top-down initiatives that claim to be the cure for the ills of public education.
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Diden, E. (2016). Administrative Support for the Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning. In: Smith, H., McDermott, J.C. (eds) The Foxfire Approach. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-564-7_12
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