To investigate powerful teaching and learning, we could inundate ourselves with stories and research about Coalition and other like-minded schools. Phone conversations, emails, books, magazines, web sites, conferences, videos: all add detail to the diverse and constantly evolving possibilities. But for all of us, time is limited and we need to make the best of the little time that we’ve
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By Thomas Toch (Beacon Press, 144 pages, $15.00) reviewed by Laura Flaxman “The prospect of high schools on a more human scale ultimately requires a belief on the part of educators and policy-makers that the necessary changes to the status quo needed to create such high schools are worth the hard work needed to achieve them. The stories of the
Schools Alternative Community School Public school serving grades 6-12 111 Chestnut St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607/274-2183 www.icsd.k12.ny.us/acs/index.html Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School Public school serving grades 9-12 1021 Jennings Street Bronx, NY 10460 718/861-0521 www.beaconschool.org/FLH/ Federal Hocking High School Public school serving grades 9-12 8461 State Route 144 Stewart, OH 457780 740/662-6691 www.federalhocking.k12.oh.us Fenway High School Public school serving
By Mary Anne Raywid and Gil Schmerler (ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, 108 pages, $13.00) reviewed by Jill Davidson In Not So Easy Going, co-authors Mary Anne Raywid and Gil Schmerler look at crises and successes in a variety of small schools to analyze the effects of policy environments. Their findings validate the experience of many CES
Edited by Joseph DiMartino, John Clarke, and Denise Wolk (The Scarecrow Press, 368 pages, $43.95) reviewed by Jill Davidson Personalized Learning affirms and enlightens the efforts of high school educators who base their pedagogy on knowing students’ minds and hearts well, advocating structures and methods that support students’ particular, idiosyncratic ways of learning and teachers’ judgments about how best to
School Redesign Network The School Redesign Network, based at Stanford University, is a powerful collaborative that provides resources both for creating small schools and for redesigning large schools. The School Redesign Network’s web site is exceptionally useful, with lessons and ideas for small school design, guidelines, research overviews, video clips from scholars and practitioners discussing small school development, access to
No two schools are ever alike, but lots of good schools share the same convictions.” – Ted Sizer The truth about how to create sustainable conditions for powerful teaching and learning is bred in the bones of schools rather than the brains of researchers or policy-makers. Motivated by this belief, new and restructuring schools that aim to incorporate the CES