Policy victims.

The Flower Teachers: Stories for a New Generation

Candace Jesse Stout

The National Art Education Association

248 pp. $20.00

School systems, founded under a modernist philosophy, tend to embrace the "new" and discard the "old" on a regular basis, especially in terms of curricula. Although copies of long-term plans may be preserved for a few decades, minutes of school board meetings and district or program recertification assessments are regularly culled and jettisoned. Even at the state level, funding rarely provides for storage of records ...

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