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...

First published in 1984, this best-selling classic is Theodore Sizer's eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, Sizer addresses the encouraging movements afoot today for better schools, smaller classes, and fully educated students. Yet, while much has changed for the better in the classroom, much remains the same: rushed classes, mindless tests, overworked teachers. Sizer's insistence that we do more than just compromise for our children's educational futures resonates ju...

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...

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...

Miracles, signs, and wonders can be a normal part of your everyday life.To walk in this kind of supernatural lifestyle, we must first be immersed in the fire of the Holy Spirit—a powerful encounter with the living Presence of God Himself!Dr. Francis J. Sizer’s life has been marked by these types of power encounters with God. It was through these experiences that his eyes were opened to the reality of the supernatural realm, where we can partner with God to see His Kingdom r...

'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...

"Buy this book and make sure that your doctor reads it too!" - Dr Steve Gilbert, Staff Specialist in Anaesthesia and Pain Management, former Lead Clinician for Chronic Pain in Scotland"Phil's book has everything necessary to help people with chronic pain change their life. To live, thrive and not just survive. A must-read for people in pain: learn to live again." - Linz Stevens, living well despite chronic pain.Chronic pain is much more common tha...

The spiritual pattern is the way to holiness that enables us to enter into the Presence of God. As we move through the Tabernacle we move closer to His Presence. As we journey from station to station, we progress in our path of holiness developing within ourselves the very character of God. Imagine, God gives a blueprint about life with Him. If we learn to follow it, we will open to ourselves a lifelong journey toward Him. Not only that, but we will be changed by Him in the journey.

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...

This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death...

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 ...