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Horace's Compromise by Theodore R. Sizer 9780618516063
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42First published in 1984, this best-selling classic is Theodore Sizer's eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, Sizer addresses the encouraging movements afoot today for better... -
Horace's School by Theodore R. Sizer 9780395755341
Booksplease Price: £10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395755341Author Theodore R. SizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint -
Horace's Hope by Theodore R. Sizer 9780395877548
Booksplease Price: £11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395877548Author Theodore R. SizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint -
The Students Are Watching by Theodore R. Sizer 9780807031216
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807031216Author Theodore SizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Secondary Schools at the Turn of the Century by Theodore R. Sizer 9780837189727
Booksplease Price: £76.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837189727Author Theodore R. SizerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint < -
Schools of Thought: How the Politics of Literacy Shape Thinking in the Classroom by Rexford G. Brown 9781555425586
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £23.21"Brown imaginatively and uniquely connects rich portraits ofclassrooms with a vision of how public policy can encouragethoughtfulness in our schools." --Theodore R. Sizer, chair, Coalition of... -
The Teaching for Understanding Guide Tina Blythe 9780787909932
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.25"This handbook will both encourage and assist those teachers whotake on the important challenge of helping their students to thinkdeeply and resourcefully and to use that intellectual... -
Kids and School Reform by Patricia Wasley 9780787910655
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.64A wonderfully useful, hones and comprehensive book, one which does not oversimplify the condition and the opportunities of the public schools. -Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential... -
Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing Grant P. Wiggins 9780787950477
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.04Now in paperback! "The most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise available on the imperative to change the ways we test and assess student performance...it will become a major reference work for... -
The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing by Martin Carnoy
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59"Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The... -
Redesigning Schools: Lessons for the 21st Century by Joseph P. McDonald 9780787903213
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04"Should be read by all who are not satisfied with the status quo in education." --Teachers College Record This book patiently and persuasively asks us to rethink before we `redesign' schools, to... -
How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities Revisited by Tony Wagner
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The first edition of How Schools Change chronicled the efforts of three very different high schools to improve teaching and learning in the early 1990's. Now, in a new second edition, Wagner... -
Tales Out of the School Library: Developing Professional Dispositions by Gail Bush, Ph.D 9781591588320
Booksplease Price: £37.42This groundbreaking book about developing the professional dispositions of school librarians uses three fictionalized librarians to serve as authentic models addressing familiar topics and situations... -
Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools by Donna E. Muncey 9780300199819
Booksplease Price: £34.12What constitutes better schooling for today's youth? In 1984 educational theorist Theodore R. Sizer formulated nine Common Principles to answer this question and launched The Coalition of Essential... -
Real Learning, Real Work: School-to-Work As High School Reform by Adria Steinberg
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89First Published in 1998. A central paradox of American education today is that classrooms are often not conducive to learning. Young people who are bright, active participants in outside-of- school... -
Schooling for the Real World: The Essential Guide to Rigorous and Relevant Learning by Adria Steinberg 9780787950415
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.94"The melding of reform approaches by the Coalition of EssentialSchools and of the 'school-to-work' movement has been inevitable aswell as sensible. In Schooling for the Real World, Adria... -
Educational Opportunity in an Urban American High School: A Cultural Analysis by Patrick James McQuillan 9780791435007
Booksplease Price: £26.07Focusing on issues of equity and opportunity in one urban high school, the book reveals how prominent American cultural values-in particular, students', teachers', and administrators' conceptions of... -
The Multi-age Learning Community in Action: Creating a Caring School Environment for All Children by Barbara Cozza 9781475837742
Booksplease Price: £45.30As schools struggle to teach all students, the multi-age teaching and learning framework has emerged as one of today's most effective ways to structure schools. Multi-age Learning Community (MAC)... -
The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how...