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For decades, practically every major initiative in American
education (from top-down standards to the testing movement) has
moved decision-making farther away from the school. Throughout
their careers, Deborah Meier, John Goodlad, James Comer, Ted Sizer,
and Hank Levin have been at the forefront of the fight against this
trend, working to give our schools back the ability to educate
students in the broadest and richest traditions of activity,
inquiry, and problem solving. Now these visionary educators have
joined together to share their personal stories of the challenges
and triumphs they faced in the classroom, and their ideas of what
education can and should be for every student.Serving as an
inspirational guide to action for those looking to be more involved
in the urgent and continuing efforts to restore America's public
schools, this book brings together the experiences and insights of
the most influential and progressive educational leaders of the
past half-century...and they are still working today! The book
ranges from highly personal to imminently practical to passionately
political, with each writer offering a unique perspective on what
it takes to sustain major school change. It recounts the many
instances when the authors thought beyond the conventional
boundaries of educational practice to find innovative solutions in
a number of critical areas, including developing more effective
curriculum and assessment, expanding the benefits of gifted
education to every child, strengthening school/community
partnerships, and addressing the specific needs of small schools
and learning communities.
Using the subjects of language arts and English in the secondary
school setting, this practical volume features
-- An alternative to the "professional development school"
-- Descriptions of actual guidelines, activities, assignments, and
professional problem-solving methods
-- Honest discussions of the relationships between mentors and
student/beginning teachers and between public school teachers and
university faculty
-- Discussion of the subcultures and realities of public high
schools across rural, suburban, and urban districts
-- Attention to the special concerns of beginning teachers
-- and much, much more
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