Crossing the Stage

by Sizer, Nancy Faust

• ISBN13: 9780325004129
• ISBN10: 0325004129
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-09
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

Recent headlines attest to the apathy, absenteeism, and lost opportunity that are widespread among high school seniors. Senior year is harder than most of us remember, yet the author sees this period as an opportunity.

Author Biography

NANCY FAUST SIZER is a career teacher who has worked in public and private high schools, including Cambridge Rindge and Latin, Phillips Academy, and the Wheeler School. With her husband, Theodore R. Sizer, she has taught at Brown University and currently teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Both Nancy and Ted recently served as Acting Co-Principals at the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School where Nancy also was Transition Counselor, helping to lead its first graduating class through the transition to postsecondary education. The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract (Beacon Press, 1999) is her most recent book, written with her husband Ted.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	x
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xvii
PART ONE The Challenges of Transition
Seniors and Their Teachers	1	(22)
Seniors and Their Friends	23	(25)
Seniors and Their Families	48	(27)
PART TWO Troubling Developments
Playing the College Game	75	(38)
Grandstanding	113	(20)
Senioritis	133	(38)
PART THREE What We Can Do
Supporting Transition	171	(20)
Truth in Advertising	191	(17)
Touching the Future	208	(20)
Epilogue: Walking Away Forever	228	(2)
References	230	(1)
Index	231