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Author : Thomas Toch
Release : 2003-05-15
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis High Schools on a Human Scale by : Thomas Toch
Download or read book High Schools on a Human Scale written by Thomas Toch. This book was released on 2003-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Tom Toch
Release : 2003-05-15
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis High Schools on a Human Scale by : Tom Toch
Download or read book High Schools on a Human Scale written by Tom Toch. This book was released on 2003-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic blueprint of American high schools hasn't changed in a century, and we are paying a heavy price. Anonymous, enormous, and resistant to change, huge American high schools are incapable of educating all children to high levels today, as dropout rates and remedial courses in college make increasingly clear. High Schools on a Human Scale shows the huge power of small schools, perhaps the nation's fastest- growing reform idea. Tom Toch takes us inside four very different small schools around the country-from an entrepreneur's high-tech charter school in San Diego to a school formed out the of the breakup of a huge public high school in Manhattan. All are small enough so that every student is known well by adults, and the results are remarkable. Together they show the proven virtues of small schools-safety, community, and high achievement. This book is sponsored in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's $40 million effort to support small schools nationwide.
Author : Samuel G. Freedman
Release : 1991-05-23
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Small Victories by : Samuel G. Freedman
Download or read book Small Victories written by Samuel G. Freedman. This book was released on 1991-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state--yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman's unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis. Following Siegel through the 1987-88 academic year, Freedman not only saw a master at work but learned from the inside just how a school functions against impossible odds. Small Victories alternates Jessica's experiences with those of others at Seaward Park, and as we cone to know intimately a number of the astonishing students and staff, Small Victories reveals itself as a book that has the power to change the way we see our world.
Author : Oscar Harrison Williams
Release : 1918
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Book Synopsis Large and Small High Schools by : Oscar Harrison Williams
Download or read book Large and Small High Schools written by Oscar Harrison Williams. This book was released on 1918. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig B. Howley
Release : 1994
Genre : Dropouts
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Book Synopsis The Academic Effectiveness of Small-scale Schooling (an Update) by : Craig B. Howley
Download or read book The Academic Effectiveness of Small-scale Schooling (an Update) written by Craig B. Howley. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
