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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative elementary and secondary schools across the country recount their attempts to create systems which... Read more
Introduction: Schools and the Maintenance of Community, Gregory A. Smith; Chapter 1 Community: An Alternative School Accomplishment, Mary Anne Raywid; Chapter 2 Creating a School That Honors the Traditions of a Culturally Diverse Student Body: La Escuela Fratney, Robert Peterson; Chapter 3 The Denali Project, David Hagstrom; Chapter 4 Building Community in an Alternative Secondary School, Dave Lehman; Chapter 5 Building a Community by Involving Students in the Governance of the School, Tom Gregory, Mary Ellen Sweeney; Chapter 6 Empowering Students to Shape Their Own Learning, Arnold Langberg; Chapter 7 Linking Classrooms and Communities: The Health and Media Academies in Oakland, Larry F. Guthrie, Grace Pung Guthrie; Chapter 8 International High School: How Work Works, Terrill Bush; Chapter 9 Turning In: Community Schools as Enclaves, Robert B. Everhart; Chapter 10 Schools in Communities: New Ways to Work Together, Toni Hass;
Biography
Gregory A. Smith is Assistant Professor at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Education and Environment: Learning to Live with Limits and coauthor of Reducing the Risk: Schools as Communities of Support.
"The text is recommended for courses on educational change, restructuring, community relations, and educational policy and analysis. In addition, it makes a good addition as a reference and professional source for one's own library." -- Research and Reflection: A Journal of Educational Praxis
