The new American high school
By: Theodore R. Sizer ; foreword by Deborah Meier ; introduction by Nancy Faust Sizer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781118526422
Subjects: Educational change; High schools; Aims and objectives; Secondary Education
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. The question is What's next? Theodore Sizer, the founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools, was a passionate advocate for the American school system. In this, his last book, he offers a vision of what a future secondary education might look like. In a book that tells the story of his own odyssey, Sizer gives shape to a much-needed agenda for improving our high schools"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index.