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Recommended Reading
Kids and School Reform
by Patricia Wasley, Robert Hampel, and Richard Clark
Jossey-Bass, September 1997
ISBN: 0787910651Here is a book that is filled with the observations of real kids and real teachers in five high schools committed to fundamental change. The schools are from a cluster of high schools associated with the Coalition of Essential Schools, based on the work of Theodore Sizer, and the authors write from personal experience as they have worked with restructuring with all its challenges. The book poses two important questions that anyone involved with educational change must ask: When the adults in American high schools make far-reaching changes, what differences ensue for their students? Teachers can use new instructional methods, rearrange the blocks of time during the school day, devise new forms of testing, or adopt other innovations--but when do these changes truly improve student learning? And when do they yield little or nothing for kids?
As we follow the school experiences of six students for two years, we can see the impact that the changes have made on their lives, and we hear directly from them. These are kids that might be in your class.
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