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dress codes, 334 Drexel University, 202 Drexler, Melissa, 29 drop-out, legal age to, 155 Dror, Yehezkel, 166 Drotz, Paul, 249

Drought, Neal E., 21 Drucker, Peter, 202 Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), 334 Drug Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA) , 405, 453n drugs, 276 Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), 334 education, and The Change Agents’ Guide to Innovation in Education , 280 Duffey, Joseph, 315–316, 360 Duke, Leilani Lattin, 397 Duke University, 73, 210, A63 Dulles, John Foster, 32 Dumas, Lynne, A174 “Dumbed-Down SATs Disguise Deficiencies—The Fault, Dear Educator, Is Not in Our Tests” (George C. Roche), 364 Dunn, Gregory, 140 Dunphy, John, 192–193 Dupont, Pierre S., 176, 323 DuPont Europe, 398 Early Developments , 394–395 “Early Schooling Is Now the Rage,” 443–444 “Early Warning Response,” 453n East Gibson County (Indiana) Group (Jeannie’s Group), 248 Eastman Kodak Company, 344, A11–12, A112 Ebbert, Stephanie, 334 Eckgold, Bernard, xx Ecole des Sciences Politiques, 18 Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 , 75 economics, 194–195 ECRI. See Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction “ECRI: Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction Consortium Winds Down,” 198–199 ECRI Teacher Training Manual , 81 “ECS at 20: The Compact’s Potential Is Still to Be Realized” (Thomas Toch), 209–210 Edelman, Marian Wright, 351, A46 Edison Project, 297–298, 299–300, A91 Edling, Jack V., 101 Edmonds, Ronald, 172, 189, 222 and Effective Schools Research, 217, 231–232, 394, A162 education as active rather than passive, 6 Durenberger, David, 176 Dyson, Esther, 381, 452n E

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