From America's "most prominent school reformer" (LOS ANGELES TIMES) comes a stirring personal meditation on what works-and what doesn't-in our high schools today. Revisiting America's classrooms, Sizer assesses the changes over the past decade and a half - from school choice to interdisciplinary learning - that give us reason to be hopeful. Tracy Kidder has called this"an eloquent book."Based on years of visiting classrooms, Sizer identifies the fundamental compromises that cripple...

This engaging and important book is a critique of American education wrapped in a memoir. Drawing on his fifty years as teacher, principal, researcher, professor, and dean, Theodore R. Sizer identifies three crucial areas in which policy discussion about public education has been dangerously silent. He argues that we must break that silence and rethink how to educate our youth.Sizer discusses our failure to differentiate between teaching and learning, noting that formal schooling ...

Neil Young and Philosophy, edited by Douglas L. Berger, explores the meanings, importance, and philosophical dimensions of the music, career, and life of this prolific singer/songwriter over the past five decades. Neil Young’s music has touched on a broad range of cultural, political and personal issues, all of which have enormous ongoing relevance for our own times. In order to accommodate Young’s artistic breadth, contributions of scholars from a wide variety of fields-- American philoso...

Part 2 MRCOG: SBA Questions contains invaluable preparation and practice for candidates undertaking the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Part 2 MRCOG examination. It contains 400 practice questions written by a highly experienced team of MRCOG question writers, alongside detailed answers referencing each question to either an RCOG, NICE or WHO guideline, or an article in the professional journal ‘The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist’. This will enable candidates to understand ...

The late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school systemOur 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 se...

'Buy this book and make sure your doctor reads it too!' Dr Steve Gilbert, former Lead Clinician for Chronic Pain in ScotlandReaders say:'I'm able to exercise again and even start working again after four years!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An absolute treasure... It is slowly changing my daily life' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Absolutely superb...

January 6, 2014—on this day, i discovered that i had 16 $100 dollar bills in my wallet. Every account i thought had was completely empty. I had resigned from my great teaching position not to be rehired. My wife who had never had so much as a speeding ticket was going to prison. My home that i thought was paid for was in foreclosure. My two Cadillac’s i also believed to be paid for were soon to be repossessed. I had a 12 year old little girl who had never known anything but living the life...

In this important manifesto, famed education reformer Ted Sizer examines 15 key issues with our current High School system, and shows what can be done to address each. Issue One: The Problem Issue Two: Growing Up AmericanIssue Three: Learning Issue Four: DifferencesIssue Five: The Language of SchoolingIssue Six: TimeIssue Seven: Space and CostsIssue Eight: CoursesIssue Nine: TechnologyIssue Ten: PedagogyIssue Eleven: TestingIssue Twelve: ChoiceIssue Thirteen: FaithIssue Fourteen: MoralityI...

In a beautiful and touching memoir, Mona Sizer brings the l930's and 40's to life as she lived them on a farm in South Texas. Intended for her daughter Rachel, she shares them with her readers as well in this warm-hearted recounting of the problems and pleasures facing women alone in a world suddenly threatened by World War II. The author is a popular writer of more than twenty historical romance novels, ten books of Texas history, biography, and true crime, a book of poetry, and numerous ...

A Hero Named Dane is a heartwarming children's picture book that celebrates kindness, courage, and the everyday ways one child can make a difference. Inspired by the true spirit of Dane, this beautifully illustrated story follows a young boy whose greatest superpower isn't flying or super strength-it's his caring heart.As Dane helps friends, shares with others, and spreads joy wherever he goes, children discover that being a hero is about showing compassion, standi...

Hosts of the Homeschool Unrefined Podcast show you how let go of traditional measures of success, and instead measure learning by curiosity, joy, self-regulation, and critical thinking.Children deserve more than the systems we're currently using to educate them. Hardworking teachers, diligent administrators, and devoted parents are trying their best in an outdated system that isn't meeting our children's complex needs.Instead, imagine a different way to learn...

A plan for school reform that respects the best traditions of secondary schooling and urges us to do far more in preparing adolescents for the future.Sizer’s groundbreaking work offers a powerful new model for our schools, built on core principles:A Focus on Intellectual Habits: Moves beyond “covering content” to cultivate the essential habits of mind—perspective, analysis, and imagination—that prepare students for a complex world.Pe...