LEADER 03200nam 22006374a 450 001 9910962828203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611721817 010 $a9781281721815 010 $a1281721816 010 $a9780300128512 010 $a0300128517 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(Perlego)1089265 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471803 100 $a20040227d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe red pencil $econvictions from experience in education /$fTheodore R. Sizer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (160 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a9780300104585 311 0 $a0300104588 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 615 0$aEducation, Secondary 676 $a373.73 700 $aSizer$b Theodore R$01804621 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962828203321 996 $aThe red pencil$94359580 997 $aUNINA