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A Personal Preface
Introduction
Part One: FIRST SEMESTER
Breaking the Ice, and Setting the Scene
1
14
Problems In Education---An Initial Survey
15
16
Drawing Up The Contract
31
14
Depression, Identity, and Growth
45
16
Neural Pathways and Other Routes to the Goal
61
16
Part Two: THE NUTS-AND-BOLTS OF GATEWAY
A Prefatory Note: Three Key People---One Who Got It Started; One Who Feeds Its Coffers; One Who Finds Its Students
75
2
The Board Chair: Speak Softly, and Carry an Absolute Conviction
77
14
The Director of Development: Parting a Wise Community and its Money
91
8
Class Time
99
4
New Blood
103
22
A Note at First Semester's End
117
6
Part Three: SECOND SEMESTER
Forethought
123
2
Hearts Coming Together
125
28
The Pre-Storm's Melancholy Quiet
153
22
In The Gladiators' Pit---The San Francisco Unified School District Beckons
175
14
Post-Mortem: The Migraine-Swell of Reflection
189
20
Creative Genius versus Slogging Student
209
24
A National Awakening To Charter Schools
233
18
Monk's Cowl and Cellular Phone
251
22
When Honorable Men Disagree
273
22
The Mouths of Babes
295
14
Curriculum Vitae
309
18
Many Slips `Twixt Fourteen and Eighteen
327
20
``I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore!''
347
22
``Out of It'': Teenagers Who Can't Come In From The Cold
369
14
Is Bigger Better?
383
18
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
401
18
Gateway versus Groton!
419
20
Groton Loves Gateway!
439
32
Valedictory
471
24
Coda---Voices in the Quiet of a Dialogue's Completion
495
6
Postscript
501
2
About the Participants
503
2
Index
505