D Magazine September 1987

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A GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL HAS: A) Terrific Test Scores B) Low Student-Teacher Ratio C)Involved Parents D)All of the Above
And Here Are Twelve Schools That Prove It.
By D Magazine
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Back To The Neighborhood School
Many Dallas parents are trying a revolutionary idea-sending their children to public school. Their reasons are many, but most agree: something good is happening at the school down the street.
By Glenna Whitley
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EATING AROUND IN SEARCH OF WELL-BEING AT SARDO’S
Also: Taj Mahal, Acker’s, Watel’s, Joe Ku’s, Sofia
By Liz Logan
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EDITOR’S PAGE
There is light at the end of the dark tunnel that has shadowed Dallas schools. But is anyone left to see it?
By Ruth Miller Fitzgibbons
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HERE AND NOW The Food Fix
I wanted to be thin more than anything else, but I couldn’t control my eating
By Beth Robins
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LYNN LANDRUM VS. THE MODERN WORLD
For thirty years, the eloquent, infuriating voice of The Dallas Morning News took on everyone from FDR to the Ku Klux Klan. The paper still bears the stamp of his conservative crusade.
By WILLIAM MURCHISON
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ROMANCING a romance writer
I felt the molten lava of lust rise within me as I stared into the luminescent pools of her azure eyes. Softly, she murmured, “You have spinach stuck in your teeth.”
By Skip Hollandsworth
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TRIANGLE OF LOVE
A mother who gave, a mother who took, and the daughter who brought them together.
By Jeff Posey
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WHY DOES JOHNNY READ DREK?
Public school textbooks are dull, noncontroversial, poorly written, oversimplified, bland, and inaccurate. And that’s exactly how they were planned.