Turning Points 2000 Continued to Endorse the Recommendations Set Forth

question 70

Multiple Choice

Turning Points 2000 continued to endorse the recommendations set forth in Turning Points 1989.One new recommendation in the 2000 report stated that:

• A)it is important to teach a curriculum grounded in rigorous academic standards for what students should know and should be able to learn.
• B)large middle schools can develop smaller "communities" or "houses" to lessen their impersonal nature.
• C)it is important to involve parents and community leaders in schools.
• D)it is important to lower student-to-counselor ratios from several hundred-to-1 to 10-to-

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