Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools

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Education reformers Deborah Meier, Theodore R. Sizer, and Nancy Faust Sizer have published books that have helped shape a movement. As school principals, all three have done another kind of writing as well: short essays in their own schools' newsletters to families.

Keeping School collects the best of these wonderfully readable gems of education writing-from an urban public elementary school and an exurban charter high school-along with new essays. Together, the letters form a ...

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Overview

Education reformers Deborah Meier, Theodore R. Sizer, and Nancy Faust Sizer have published books that have helped shape a movement. As school principals, all three have done another kind of writing as well: short essays in their own schools' newsletters to families.

Keeping School collects the best of these wonderfully readable gems of education writing-from an urban public elementary school and an exurban charter high school-along with new essays. Together, the letters form a portrait of what schools can look like when they are based on the authors' understandings of learning, community, authority, and standards.

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Meier (In Schools We Trust), Theodore Sizer (founder, Coalition of Essential Schools), and Nancy Sizer (coauthor with Theodore Sizer of The Students Are Watching) have been teachers and school administrators writing about educational reform for years. Merging their theories with practice, the Sizers established and shared the principalship of a charter secondary school, while Meier founded and led a charter elementary school nearby. In this book, they present a collection of letters written to families of students at these schools. Written monthly as the school year unfolded, these letters represented the daily life of the school while illuminating the philosophies of the authors regarding learning, authority, community, testing, and standards. This collection tellingly reveals how these educators expressed their views to those outside their profession and how they encouraged parents to think about the process of their children's education. Recommended for public and academic libraries serving families and K-12 educators.-Jean Caspers, Linfield Coll. Lib., McMinnville, OR Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807032657
  • Publisher: Beacon
  • Publication date: 8/28/2005
  • Edition description: None
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 5.51 (w) x 8.44 (h) x 0.55 (d)

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Theordore R. Sizer, University Professor Emeritus at Brown Universtiy, is the chairman of the coalition of Essential Schools. He lives in Harvard, Massachusetts.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
A history of the Mission Hill School
On keeping school at Parker
Learning : turning less into more 3
Authority and power 61
Community 97
Standard 139
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