LEADER 03084nam 22005894a 450 001 9910452058003321 005 20210527213415.0 010 $a1-281-72181-6 010 $a9786611721817 010 $a0-300-12851-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128512 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471803 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049509 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000234244 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202827 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000234244 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235935 035 $a(PQKB)10560793 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419960 035 $a(DE-B1597)484816 035 $a(OCoLC)952732520 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128512 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419960 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10169986 035 $a(OCoLC)923588902 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471803 100 $a20040227d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe red pencil$b[electronic resource] $econvictions from experience in education /$fTheodore R. Sizer 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (160 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-10458-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 125-131). 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. Building --$t2. Authority --$t3. Order --$t4. Horace Compromised --$tEpilogue --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes 330 $aThis engaging and important book is a critique of American education wrapped in a memoir. Drawing on his fifty years as teacher, principal, researcher, professor, and dean, Theodore R. Sizer identifies three crucial areas in which policy discussion about public education has been dangerously silent. He argues that we must break that silence and rethink how to educate our youth.Sizer discusses our failure to differentiate between teaching and learning, noting that formal schooling must adapt to and confront the powerful influences found outside traditional classrooms. He examines the practical as well as philosophical necessity for sharing policy-making authority among families, schools, and centralized governments. And he denounces our fetish with order, our belief that the familiar routines that have existed for generations are the only way to bring learning to children. Sizer provides alternatives to these failed routines-guidelines for creating a new educational system that would, among other things, break with wasteful traditional practice, utilize agencies and arrangements beyond the school building, and design each child's educational program around his or her particular needs and potential. 606 $aEducation, Secondary$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEducation, Secondary 676 $a373.73 700 $aSizer$b Theodore R$0870575 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452058003321 996 $aThe red pencil$92471343 997 $aUNINA