High Schools on a Human Scale How Small Schools Can Transform American Education

Name: High Schools on a Human Scale How Small Schools Can Transform American Education
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ISBN: 9780807032459

ISBN-10: 080703245X

ISBN-13: 9780807032459

Edition: 2003

Authors: Tom Toch, Tom Vander Ark

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Reporting from the front lines of Americas most important education reform effort-the movement for small schools The basic blueprint of American high schools hasnt changed in a century, and we are paying a heavy price. Anonymous, enormous, and resistant to change, huge American high schools are incapable of educating all children to high levels today, as dropout rates and remedial courses in college make increasingly clear. High Schools on a Human Scale shows the huge power of small schools, perhaps the nations fastest- growing reform idea. Tom Toch takes us inside four very different small schools around the country-from an entrepreneurs high-tech charter school in San Diego to a school…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 5/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



Re: Building: Julia Richman Education Complex, New York City



Engaging Debates: Urban Academy, New York City



Getting Real: High Tech High, San Diego, California



Bond Brokers: The Met, Providence, Rhode Island



Ownership Stakes: Minnesota New Country School, Henderson, Minnesota


Epilogue: Scaling Up



Model High Schools Nationwide


Research on Small High Schools


Acknowledgments