Published February 15, 2006 in Opinion Section of the East Valley Tribune.

 

Like many parents with a child completing elementary school, I’ve been exploring options for next year. Arizona is a leader in the “school choice” movement, so I hoped to find nearby schools which embraced three well-recognized educational approaches.

1. With school performance increasingly reduced to the results of the AIMS test, many schools narrow their focus to standards-based textbook-driven te