IGHT NOW, many schools are scrambling to comply with the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, and educators are seeking strategies to boost achievement and move more students into higher education or a promising career. Raising academic standards for all students is the right thing to do, but standards-based school reform sometimes seems to ignore the fact that many students are simply not engaged sufficiently by academic study. If allowed to remain unmoti
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