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1 online resource (x, 319 pages) |
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Foreword / Seymour B. Sarason -- 1. The Coalition of Essential Schools -- 2. "Students Feel That This is Their Program": Lewis High's Essential School Program -- 3. "Different People with Different Agendas": Russell High's Essential School -- 4. "A Struggle That Had to Play Itself Out": Elliston High School -- 5. "But We're Not Failing Here": The Coalition at Evans Hill High School -- 6. "I'm Not in This All Alone": The Wade School and Coalition Philosophy -- 7. A Comparative Look at Schoolwide Change -- 8. "If Only I Had the Time": A Teacher in the Midst of Change -- 9. "But We Have Oral History Projects, Time Lines, and Tests. We Don't Even Know Where to Start": Negotiation and Resistance in a Coalition Classroom -- 10. "From Whose Point of View?": Two Humanities Classes in Coalition Schools -- 11. "You Can't Always 'Do Change' on Top of Everything Else": A Comparative Look at the Role of the Principal in Coalition Schools |
| Summary |
What constitutes better schooling for today's youth? In 1984 educational theorist Theodore R. Sizer formulated nine Common Principles to answer this question and launched The Coalition of Essential Schools, an organization of schools attempting to change their own structure, curriculum, pedagogy, and power relations according to Sizer's Principles. This important book, the first comprehensive look at Coalition schools, charts the course of reform at eight charter member schools. Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan, experts in anthropology as well as education, conducted a five-year ethnographic study to understand what happened in Coalition schools. The authors looked at curricular and pedagogical developments; how changes affected individual students, teachers, administrators, and other school personnel; and how American cultural beliefs influenced efforts to change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-314) and index |
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Coalition of Essential Schools.
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| SUBJECT |
Coalition of Essential Schools. fast (OCoLC)fst00642990 |
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High schools -- United States -- Administration
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Education, Secondary -- Social aspects -- United States
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Ethnology -- United States.
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EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Education, Secondary -- Social aspects.
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Ethnology.
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High schools -- Administration.
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High school
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Schulreform
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Unterrichtsreform
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Höhere Schule
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United States.
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McQuillan, Patrick J
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| ISBN |
9780300159332 |
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0300159331 |
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