Better High Schools: What Would Create Them?

The American desire to improve education has set off a flurry of activity to reform schools. In such a climate of restructuring, Sizer explores what better secondary schools might look like if indeed they existed. His consideration of the improved high school is based on five particular conditions — all of which support teachers and students in their engagement with the serious stuff of learning and all of which must exist in one form or another for schools to be effective. The conditions are cast as questions. Sizer locates the responsibility for school reform broadly, from the heart of a school — the relationships between teachers and students — to the life and behaviors of the community in which that school is nestled. This article is a collective call to action around ultimately simple and sensible ideas reminiscent of a form of civic participation long overdue

Grappling

Moral or character education is neither a discrete curriculum added as an afterthought nor an unreflective activity, such as community service, that has never been probed for its meaning. Truly moral education, the authors maintain, is an intellectual undertaking that must infuse the entire school

Prospectives

Tiré de: Prospectives, vol. 23, no 1, février 1987Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 24 janv. 2013

Sizer, Theodore R., Courses pp. 116-134 in The New American High School. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013.

Gives the author\u27s proposals for thehigh school curriculum that he would envision for the future; other sections of the book also mention related features that round out the specific guidelines presented in this chapter; also provides some autobiographical stories about the author\u27s life and experiences as a teacher and a professional educator

The New American High School

TED SIZER was one of the nation\u27s most respected education-reform advocates. He founded the Essential Schools movement, which maintains, among other things, that students and teachers are members of the school\u27s communit

Horace's compromise : the dilemma of the american high school /

The first report from a study of high schools, co-sponsored by the National association of secondary school principals and the Commission on educational issues of the National association of independent school

A Review and comment on the national reports : perspectives /

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