Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education
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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... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300104588
ISBN13:9780300104585
Release Date:August 2004
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:131 Pages
Weight:0.77 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
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Changing Public Schools
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I couldn't help but feel compelled to write a review after I read the previous review. If you like Dewey or Adler, you will really enjoy this book. Sizer draws from both Dewey and Adler's ideas and points out all the problems with education today. Sizer has years of experience in various areas of education which does nothing more than to give his words even more value. The book is written in first person, so you actually get to live through some of his experiences which brings him to his idea of reformed education. Sizer's coalition of essential schools are interesting and provide one of the best models for education up until this point. If you want to find more information about this model before reading the book, look up Coalition of Essential Schools. They are charter schools located throughout the U.S. that are using this model. This is a must read for anyone who wants to read about contemporary education and understand where we have come from. This book isn't that negative as the previous reader mentioned. It is no more negative than Dewey's "Experience and Education."
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