Published: November 1, 1999

Letters

As a resident of Celebration, a teacher, and a parent of children at Celebration School since its inaugural year, I was appalled by the excerpt from the Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz book, Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town [ "Nothing To Celebrate," October]. True education reform is an arduous, challenging process, a journey that we at Celebration have chosen to make knowing that the future is at stake. Our successes are joyous; our "not yets" (verbiage from our rubric) are frustrating. However, with our focus on the best practices in education, we have a compass that guides us through this journey.

In the past, Teacher Magazine has featured articles espousing the very practices that Celebration embodies. Often, those articles have served as encouragement and support for us. Yet this time, what could have been a wonderful opportunity to feature education reform in a world focused on test scores became nothing more...