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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817669303321

Autore

Sizer Theodore R

Titolo

The new American high school / / Theodore R. Sizer ; foreword by Deborah Meier ; introduction by Nancy Faust Sizer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand, 2013

ISBN

1-118-58498-8

1-118-58497-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Classificazione

EDU000000

Disciplina

373.73

Soggetti

High schools - United States

Education, Secondary - Aims and objectives - United States

Educational change - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Praise for The New American High School -- Also by Theodore R. Sizer -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword by Deborah Meier -- Preface: The Lay of the Land -- Introduction by Nancy Faust Sizer -- CHAPTER  ONE: The Problem -- CHAPTER  TWO: Growing Up American -- CHAPTER  THREE: Learning -- CHAPTER  FOUR: Differences -- CHAPTER  FIVE: The Language of Schooling -- CHAPTER  SIX: Time -- CHAPTER  SEVEN: Space and Costs -- CHAPTER  EIGHT: Courses -- CHAPTER  NINE: Technology -- CHAPTER  TEN: Pedagogy -- CHAPTER  ELEVEN: Testing -- CHAPTER  TWELVE: Choice -- CHAPTER  THIRTEEN: Faith -- CHAPTER  FOURTEEN: Morality -- CHAPTER  FIFTEEN: The Prospect -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- About the Author -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school systemOur current high schools are ill-designed and inefficient. We have inherited a program of studies that in its overall structure has not changed in over a century. The question is What's next? Theodore Sizer, the founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools, was a passionate advocate for the American school system. In this, his last book, he offers a vision of what a future secondary education might look like. In a book that tells the story of his own odyssey, Sizer gives



shape to a much-needed agenda for improving our high schools. Includes a vision for the future of our High Schools from one of America's greatest leaders of educational reform Written by Theodore Sizer founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools and author of landmark book Horace's Compromise This final book from the late Theodore Sizer reveals the man and his vision for our secondary education system"--