High Schools on a Human Scale
Subtitle: How Small Schools Can Transform American Education
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: May 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780807032459
Subjects: Small schools; School size; Education, Secondary; Education / Teaching; Education; United States; Secondary; Educational Policy & Reform; Education / Educational Reform; General; Case studies
Description: High Schools on a Human Scale shows the huge power of small schools, perhaps the nation's fastest- growing reform idea. Tom Toch takes us inside four very different small schools around the country-from an entrepreneur's high-tech charter school in San Diego to a school formed out the of the breakup of a huge public high school in Manhattan. All are small enough so that every student is known well by adults, and the results are remarkable. Together they show the proven virtues of small schools-safety, community, and high achievement. This book is sponsored in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's $40 million effort to support small schools nationwide.