| Description |
xxii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Reform and Reinvention / James A. Beane -- 1. Reinventing the Middle School: A Proposal to Counter Arrested Development / Thomas S. Dickinson -- 2. The School and the Child and the Child in the School / Debra Eckerman Pitton -- 3. Hope for Sandy: Transformation Points: A Reinvention Paradigm / Mary M. Gallagher-Polite -- 4. The Arc of Equity in Reinvented Middle Schools / Janet E. McDaniel, Juan Necochea and Francisco A. Rios / [et al.] -- 5. Standards, Students, and Exploration: Creating a Curriculum Intersection of Excellence / P. Elizabeth Pate -- 6. Connecting Caring and Action: Teachers Who Create Learning Communities in Their Classrooms / David Strahan, Tracy W. Smith and Mike McElrath / [et al.] -- 7. On Headpieces of Straw: How Middle Level Students View Their Schooling / Richard R. Powell -- 8. High-Quality Learning Opportunities in High Poverty Middle Schools: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality / Douglas J. Mac Iver, Estelle Young and Robert Balfanz / [et al.] -- 9. Transforming Organizational Structures for Young Adolescents and Adult Learning / Thomas O. Erb -- 10. Our Turn? Teaming and the Professional Development of Teachers / Daniel L. Kain -- 11. The Role of Technology for Learning in the Reinvented Middle School / Susan M. Powers, Cathleen D. Rafferty and B. J. Eib -- 12. Transformation and Context in Middle Grades Reform / Gayle A. Davis -- 13. Coming Together to Raise Our Children: Community and the Reinvented Middle School / Kim K. Ruebel -- 14. Engineering Success through Purposeful Articulation / Jeanneine P. Jones -- 15. Reinventing Middle Level Teacher Preparation via Professional Development Schools / Laura Van Zandt Allen and C. Kenneth McEwin -- 16. On a Good Day Everyone Grows: Reflections on the Reinvention of a School / Thomas S. Dickinson and Deborah A. Butler |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Middle schools -- United States.
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Middle school education -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Educational change -- United States.
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| Author |
Dickinson, Thomas S.
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| LC no. |
2001019306 |
| ISBN |
0415925924 hardback |
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0415925932 paperback |
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