Small Schools and Strong Communities - A Third Way of School Reform

Informationen zum Autor Kenneth A. Strike is Professor of Cultural Foundations at Syracuse University and Professor Emeritus of Education at Cornell University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and is a past president of the Philosophy of Education Society. Klappentext In this insightful book, Kenneth Strike develops a new vision of school reform. Arguing that good schools are first and foremost strong communities, Strike maintains that the small schools movement is the best hope to create such schools. He shows how the core assumptions that characterize the community paradigm are preferable to those of standards-based reform and choice. Zusammenfassung Looking at three different school models! the author discusses the requirements for creating successful small schools and develops a new vision of school reform. Part I examines student disengagement as an issue largely unaddressed by current views of sch

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth A Strike, Kenneth A. Strike
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2010
• EAN: 9780807750582
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5058-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system