Comprehensive Reform for Urban High Schools: A Talent Development Approach

Grounded in the authors' real-world experiences of restructuring several urban high schools, this volume offers a powerful alternative to current reform efforts. The well-structured text details organizational, curricular, and instructional strategies providing practitioners with a workable blueprint for whole school reform. Since its inception, the Talent Development Approach has gained national recognition and is currently expanding to new areas. This book is the story of what happened in schools when this model was implemented -- what worked and what didn't. Clearly, this approach holds great promise for transforming large, nonselective high schools into personalized, relevant, and effective communities.

Summary

This text offers the Talent Development Approach as an alternative to contemporary US educational reform efforts. It details organizational, curricular and instructional strategies to provide practitioners with a workable blueprint for whole school reform.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Balfanz, Will Jordan, Nettie Legters, Nettie E. Legters, James McPartland, James C. McPartland
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2002
• EAN: 9780807742259
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4225-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Sociology of Education; Sociology of Education S.; Sociology of Education
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system