The new American high school
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The new American high school
Jossey-Bass, c2013
- : cloth
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school system Our current high schools are ill-designed and inefficient. We have inherited a program of studies that in its overall structure has not changed in over a century. The question is What's next? Theodore Sizer, the founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools, was a passionate advocate for the American school system. In this, his last book, he offers a vision of what a future secondary education might look like. In a book that tells the story of his own odyssey, Sizer gives shape to a much-needed agenda for improving our high schools.
Includes a vision for the future of our High Schools from one of America's greatest leaders of educational reform
Written by Theodore Sizer founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools and author of landmark book Horace's Compromise
This final book from the late Theodore Sizer reveals the man and his vision for our secondary education system.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Deborah Meier vii Preface: The Lay of the Land xix
Introduction by Nancy Faust Sizer xxv
1 The Problem 1
2 Growing up American 15
3 Learning 36
4 Differences 56
5 The Language of Schooling 74
6 Time 90
7 Space and Costs 106
8 Courses 116
9 Technology 135
10 Pedagogy 142
11 Testing 164
12 Choice 181
13 Faith 193
14 Morality 201
15 The Prospect 221
Acknowledgments 232
Further Reading 233
About the Author 236
Index 238
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