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• CES at 25: Changing Schools, Changing Lives This special Fall Forum double issue offers a wide range of perspectives on the Essential schools movement at the moment of its 25th anniversary. Contributions range from recommending expansion of… Vol 25 | 2 2009
• CES 2.0: Technology and the Essential School Horace looks at infusing social networking into pedagogy, learning technology skills through service-learning, distance learning and the CES Common Principles, using social networking for literacy… Vol 25 | 1 2009
• Cycles of Inquiry and Action Vol 24 | 4 2008
• Education and Democracy This issue looks at civic engagement to understand the ways that educators, students, and communities that support schools involve themselves in politics and policy creation to create and sustain… Vol 24 | 3 2008
• Wellness and the Mind-Body Connection This issue investigates the connections between mind, body, and learning, focusing on topics such as food and nutrition, the role of play in learning and schools, organized sports, wellness, personal… Vol 24 | 2 2008
• Lifecycles of Educators: Essential School Staff Development This issue examines the career directions of Essential school teachers and education leaders, focusing on professional learning communities to address the challenge of developing the capacity of… Vol 24 | 1 2008
• Beyond Reform: Transformations This issue explores how communities interrupt the status quo and create the conditions for transformed schools. How do transformed schools — and their larger environments — sustain and evolve as… Vol 23 | 4 2007
• What’s Essential about Elementary Schools This issue looks at the latest thinking in the CES network about what defines CES elementary schools, inviting practitioners to discuss the way elementary schools express the CES Common Principles. Vol 23 | 3 2007
• Essential Mathematics Education Essential school mathematics educators debate the advantages and challenges of responding to “less is more” and other CES Common Principles in mathematics, addressing what’s happening now in… Vol 23 | 2 2007
• Exhibtions: Demonstrations of Mastery in Essential Schools This issue features writing from CES educators from Sedona Red Rock High School, Greenfield Center School, Parker Charter Essential School, Mission Hill School, School of the Future, and Leadership… Vol 23 | 1 2007
• Leadership: Students as Writers: Essential School Students on Education and Activism Produced in collaboration with CES’s Small Schools Project, this student-written issue tells stories about and examines the impact of youth leadership in the CES Network. Vol 22 | 4 2006
• Community Connections: Community-Based Learning and Essential Schools Horace explores the challenges and value of internships, service learning, community collaborations, independent projects and other non-classroom centered learning opportunities in CES schools. Vol 22 | 3 2006
• Classroom Practice: Teaching and Learning Essential Literacy Skills Horace spotlights the work of Essential school educators skilled in teaching heterogeneous groups while deepening meaning, relevance and academic challenge for all. Vol 22 | 2 2006
• School Design: How Essential Schools Prepare Students for Higher Education Horace focuses on how the Common Principles guide Essential schools to cultivate the structures, guidance, and support for all students to be ready to be admitted to and persist in college and be… Vol 22 | 1 2006
• Using Advocacy and Communication to Create and Sustain Essential Schools This issue focuses on ways that Essential School communities have contributed to politcal action to create policy environments that support the CES Common Principles. Ann Cook and Phyllis Tashlik of… Vol 21 | 4 2005
• District Change to Support Essential Schools This issue focuses on creating school districts that support Essential schools, with case studies of Boston, Indianapolis, Maplewood Public Schools, Colorado, and Humble, Texas. Also featured:… Vol 21 | 3 2005
• Inclusion and Learning Differences in Essential Schools This issue of Horace forcuses on inclusion that creates full access for students with language-based learning disabilities as a way to focus specifically on issues of teaching and learning. Accounts… Vol 21 | 2 2005
• Advisories in Essential Schools This issue explores the state of advisories in Essential schools. What do graduates think of an advisory centered high school education. Contributors explore how students’ experiences have been… Vol 20 | 4 2004
• High School Conversions: Essential Restructuring Examines the issues and opportunities that arise when large high schools convert to small, autonomous schools. Laura Flaxman analyzes student achievement during the conversion process while Jay… Vol 20 | 3 2004
• Making Math Personal Focuses on math in Essential schools, featuring an interview with civil rights leader Dr. Robert Moses, founder of the Algebra Project, highlighting the math curriculum development process at New… Vol 20 | 2 2004
• Mentoring and Collaboration among Essential Schools Looks at how sustained mentorships and patnerships help new and restructuring schools effectively draw on the experience of long-established Coalition schools. Includes practical information about… Vol 20 | 1 2004 
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• Strengthening Bonds between Families and Schools Vol 19 | 4 2003
• Leadership for Equity Includes a contribution authored by Linda Nathan, Headmaster of Boston Arts Academy, that describes BAA’s efforts to support equitable academic success for all of its students. This issue also… Vol 19 | 3 2003
• English Language Learners in Essential Schools Looks at the varied experiences of students in bilingual and English Language Learning classrooms in Essential schools. We will focus on classroom practice and teaching/learning strategies, the… Vol 19 | 2 2003
• Elements of Smallness Create Conditions for Success Examines how sustained efforts to incorporate the Ten Common Principles support small schools as they make the most of student learning, personalization, school sustainability, collaborative… Vol 19 | 1 2003
• Working for Equity through Community Collaboration Looks at Oakland’s new small autonomous schools effort and the relationship of three organizations involved in the effort: Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools, Oakland Community Organizations,… Vol 18 | 4 2002
• Volume 18.3 Vol 18 | 3 2002
• Personalized Assessment and Standards Provides another look at the various ways Coalition schools are confronting the challenges of the accountability and standardized testing movement by providing invaluable alternatives for… Vol 18 | 2 2002
• Educational Architecture on a Human Scale Expounds upon the power of flexible designs that support personalized learning and relationships, relating the experiences of educators and architects trying to design best spaces for learning and… Vol 18 | 1 2002
•  Looking Back on 15 Years of Essential School Designs In her last issue as the editor of Horace, Kathleen Cushman looks back on 15 years and 60 issues, observing how the change process has affected school cultures deeply. She notes the 10 most… Vol 17 | 3 2001