Comprehensive reform for urban high schools: a talent development approach

Nettie E Legters

Teachers College Press, 2002 - Education - 174 pages

Grounded in the authors' real-world experiences of restructuring several urban high schools, this volume offers a powerful alternative to current reform efforts. The well-structured text details organizational, curricular, and instructional strategies providing practitioners with a workable blueprint for whole school reform. Since its inception, the Talent Development Approach has gained national recognition and is currently expanding to new areas. This book is the story of what happened in schools when this model was implemented what worked and what didn't. Clearly, this approach holds great promise for transforming large, nonselective high schools into personalized, relevant, and effective communities.

Contents

• The Challenge: 3
• The Talent Development Response: 17
• Context and Planning for Reform: 43
• Effects of Talent Development: 61
• Lessons Learned from: 81
• Early ScaleUp Efforts in Baltimore: 100
• Replicating and Extending the Talent: 114
• CHAPTERS Hope for the Future of Comprehensive High School Reform: 134
• References: 151
• Index: 163
• About the Authors: 173

Bibliographic information

• Title: Comprehensive reform for urban high schools: a talent development approach; Comprehensive Reform for Urban High Schools: A Talent Development Approach, Nettie E. Legters; Sociology of education series
• Editor: Nettie E Legters
• Contributor: Nettie E Legters
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0807742252, 9780807742259
• Length: 174 pages
• Subjects: Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Education / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education / Secondary