These participants ranked things -- friends, family, a hobby or a religious value -- that were important to them and wrote down a few sentences about why their top-ranked value was important (this is a standard self-affirmation exercise, Creswell says).

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Finally, as already noted, standards-based reform represents an affirmation of the notion that, in and of itself, enhanced access is of little value.

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