{"product_id":"the-new-american-high-school-isbn-9781118526422","title":"The New American High School","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school system\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOur 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 \u003ci\u003eWhat's next?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a vision for the future of our High Schools from one of America's greatest leaders of educational reform\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by Theodore Sizer founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools and author of landmark book \u003ci\u003eHorace's Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis final book from the late Theodore Sizer reveals the man and his vision for our secondary education system.\u003c\/p\u003e Foreword by Deborah Meier vii \u003cp\u003ePreface: The Lay of the Land xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Nancy Faust Sizer xxv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Problem 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Growing up American 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Learning 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Differences 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Language of Schooling 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Time 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Space and Costs 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Courses 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Technology 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Pedagogy 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Testing 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Choice 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Faith 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Morality 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Prospect 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 238\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTED SIZER\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the nation's most respected education-reform advocates. He founded the Essential Schools movement, which maintains, among other things, that students and teachers are members of the school's community.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSecondary school education is one of this nation's most important social mechanisms.\u003c\/b\u003e At their best, high schools are models of democracy, providers of the intellectual and moral equipment for young people to survive and prosper in our culture. But the sad fact is that the design of the beloved high school as we know it has run its course, no longer serving youth as well as it once did. The key question facing the current generation is: What can be done? And what should a truly \u003ci\u003enew\u003c\/i\u003e secondary school look like? What will make it new? What from the past should remain supported and in place? In \u003ci\u003eThe New American High School\u003c\/i\u003e, Ted Sizer, one of the country's most respected educator reformers, takes on fifteen of the key issues facing our high schools today and offers practical suggestions for positive change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn these pages, Sizer discusses the question of student differences, arguing that, to teach different children well without categorizing them unfairly, you must be able to know them, and you cannot know each student well if the class is too large. He tackles the issue of time and suggests that schools might better operate on a twelve-month basis, with students and staff rotating in and out, allowing some \"vacation\" for rest and the recharging of intellectual batteries, a pattern that conforms with most of the working world. In addition, he deals with the issues of choice, the language of schooling, courses, and other critical topics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOur task, says Sizer, is to give a new shape to the ways that adolescents learn and thus the manner in which we teach them. And, as he concludes, \"Our work is worthy, essential to an orderly, optimistic democracy. Let us persist with it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe New American High School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If you do not know educator Theodore Sizer or his ideas, this book provides a splendid introduction. And if you did know Ted and his writings, you will be enriched by his reflections in this volume—his most personal book.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eHoward Gardner\u003c\/b\u003e, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"At the very end of his career and life, Ted Sizer calls out to us again to pay attention to the education of our young people. He reminds us that to settle for the status quo reduces our future as well as theirs.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003ePatricia A. Wasley,\u003c\/b\u003e CEO, Teaching Channel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ted Sizer's voice, as always, is disarmingly provocative—sensitive to our stress but astonished too by our continuing lack of imagination. He proves himself here to be not just the best education writer of the late twentieth century but of the early twenty-first century too.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eJoseph P. McDonald\u003c\/b\u003e, professor of teaching and learning, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Like John Dewey, Ted Sizer was a philosopher, a historian, and above all a practitioner. Anyone with a serious interest in understanding and shaping the educational landscape of the twenty-first century must heed Sizer's wisdom, uniquely grounded in his experiences as a teacher, a parent, a professor, a graduate school dean, a principal, and the visionary leader of a national reform movement.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eLori Chajet, PhD\u003c\/b\u003e, codirector, College Access: Research \u0026amp; Action, CUNY Graduate Center\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990294642917,"sku":"NP9781118526422","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118526422.jpg?v=1761787241","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-new-american-high-school-isbn-9781118526422","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}