Product Description: How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities, and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build on their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools be turned into places where everyone is learning from each other? These are the big questions that guide the work of teachers at the well-known Mission Hill School in Boston and that are addressed in this book...read more

Product Description: The late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school system Our current high schools are ill-designed and inefficient. We have inherited a program of studies that in its overall structure has not changed in over a century...read more

A citizen's guide to the 'No Child Left Behind' Act of 2002 argues that the bill changed education for the worse by imposing unrealistic standards for testing and harsh sanctions against schools that do not comply. Original.

Product Description: Signed into law in 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) promised to revolutionize American public education. Originally supported by a bipartisan coalition, it purports to improve public schools by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing...read more

An innovative educator and leader of one of the most remarkable schools in the U.S.--Central Park East--offers her ideas for public education