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. Part I examines student disengagement as an issue largely unaddressed by current views of school reform; demonstrates that belonging is essential to authentic learning; and argues that good schools create a sense that “we are all in this together.” Good schools have a “shared educational project” and exhibit the four Cs of community: coherence, cohesion, care, and connectivity. Part II discusses the small schools movement. The author shows that small size is not sufficient to create strong communities or good schools―we cannot just downsize and hope that something good will happen. Strike looks at the educational practices and policies required to create successful small schools, and develops a view of accountability appropriate for building successful educational communities. He argues that if we expect small schools to be successful we cannot view them as simply a strategy for succeeding on standards-based reform, but rather we must see the creation of strong communities as a distinct paradigm for school reform.

Product Description: This unique hands-on guide uses a highly effective case approach to explore specific, reality-based examples of the complex, controversial, and difficult ethical issues that students face on college campuses today–e.g., plagiarism, racism and hate speech, date rape, alcohol abuse...read more

Providing school administrators with a rigorous yet practical approach to the difficult dilemmas that so often arise in their profession, this volume covers-- Standards-- Assessment and evaluation-- Equal opportunity-- Multiculturalism-- Religious differences-- Due process-- Freedom of expression-- Personal liberty, and-- Authority. The new Third Edition features a totally new chapter that addresses diversity (emphasizing both religious and cultural differences) and new cases that discuss such current issues as sexual harassment and child abuse.

Product Description: This text has been expanded to include the most important ethical issues in contemporary schooling, including a new section on Professionalism and Teaching with Integrity and new cases that discuss such current issues as zero tolerance policies, curriculum mandates and teacher integrity, high-stakes testing, and curriculum distortion...read more

Product Description: To maintain the integrity of research, educational researchers should warrant their research conclusions adequately in a way consistent with the standards of their own theoretical and methodological perspectives. They should keep themselves well informed in both their own and competing paradigms where those are relevant to their research, and they should continually evaluate the criteria of adequacy by which research is judged...read more

Product Description: This volume confronts the expected tension between care and justice as moral orientations. The essays, by renowned educators, reveal how these two moral orientations can work together to produce wiser and more practical policies and practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Lauded by dozens of pre-publication reviewers, this book asks its readers to reflect on some of the ethical aspects of being a student, and helps readers think clearly and powerfully about those issues. Through a highly effective case approach, the authors provide readers with specific, reality-based examples of the complex, controversial, and difficult ethical issues that students face on college campuses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume delves into a relatively neglected area - the ethical principles governing the conduct of teachers, administrators, and other education professionals - and strives to provide a thoughtful starting-point for discussion in the field...read more

Product Description: Strike explores the differences between Marxists and liberals over the nature of the good life, about how human beings are formed, and about episemology, and uses these discussions to explore views of schooling. This book should be of interest to upper-level students and above in education, politics and sociology...read more