ONE ADMINISTRATOR'S CHALLENGE: IMPLEMENTING A LEARNING STYLE PROGRAM AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL

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In this article a principal and assistant principal describe how they gradually involved the staff at Corsicana, Texas' 1,300‐student high school in learning styles‐based instruction and the effects that had on students, teachers, achievement, attitudes, and behavior. This program was initiated three years before Dr. W. N. Kirby, Commissioner of Education in Texas, insisted that teachers adapt their teaching styles to the styles of their students and laid the responsibility for at‐risk underachievers squarely on the backs of unresponsive educators. In 1989, the Texas State legislature, in response to Kirby's directives, passed legislation mandating that no students who fail any subject may ever be taught the same information through the method with which they previously failed but, instead, had to be taught through their learning style.

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