Horace's Hope

by Theodore R. Sizer

• ISBN13: 9780395739839
• ISBN10: 0395739837
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-09-15
• Publisher: HarperCollins

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