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9780395739839

Horace's Hope

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  • ISBN13:

    9780395739839

  • ISBN10:

    0395739837

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-09-15
  • Publisher: HarperCollins

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Summary

With his books Horace's Compromise and Horace's School, Theodore R. Sizer tapped into a wellspring of concern about education and drew the admiration of reviewers, who called him " one of the finest writers among educators." Now, when the need for educational reform has never been greater, Sizer offers a firsthand and much-needed look at what works - and what doesn't - in the American high school. Horace's Hope, the third and final volume in his trilogy, is Sizer's personal meditation on the state of high school education today. How can teachers aspire to innovative teaching when it takes tremendous energy just to get through the day? How can schools revamp curricula when resources are scarce and class attendance hovers around fifty percent? In Horace's Hope, Sizer revisits classrooms in America's schools, some of them members of his Coalition of Essential Schools, and assesses the changes over the past decade and a half. While some schools are disappointingly unchanged, others have ma

Table of Contents

Preface: Horace Smith ix
1 A Story Where Nothing Happens
1(22)
A Place Where Something Happened
18(5)
2 There Is More to It than Just the Schools
23(11)
Massive Middle Schools
30(4)
3 The Words of Reform
34(22)
New Schools in Suburbia
51(5)
4 The Work of Reform
56(20)
A System of Schools
70(6)
5 What Matters
76(34)
New Practice from New Evidence
107(3)
6 Troublesome Complexities
110(20)
The Good New Days
127(3)
7 Horace's Hope
130(21)
Appendix A: The Coalition of Essential Schools 151(9)
Appendix B: The Coalition of Essential Schools: A National Research Context 160(17)
Margaret M. MacMullen
Appendix C: Members of the Coalition of Essential Schools 177(10)
Acknowledgments 187(4)
Notes 191

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