Building Urban Little Schools: Where Every Child Succeeds with Dignity

In a time when public education is the major issue of the day, Newman presents a program for altering the face of public education: developing small urban, neighborhood based schools where children never experience failure while learning the skills and content necessary to be a successful independent learner through the medium of "conversations" with their teachers. The scheme provides a blueprint for mastering the academic skills required in the elementary grades, starting at 5 years until...