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What The Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era Buildings Parents of Smart Kids knowEarly in the 2000s, a high school principal in Minnesota, Dr. Bob Perdaems, faced a complex challenge. The demographics of his school were shifting, political tensions in the surrounding communities were rising, and, thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act's new testing and accountability requirements, his school's performance was soon to be