Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School

Theodore R. Sizer

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997 - Education - 238 pages

Since the late 1970s, Theodore Sizer has studied and worked among hundreds of American high schools. His research was first published in 1984 in Horace's Compromise, and since then, the scope ofally. Sizer now proposes a process of redesign which respects the best of the rich traditions of secondary schooling while doing far more to educate our youth.

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HORACE'S SCHOOL: Redesigning the American High School

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A portrait of what an ideal American high school might be like, as envisioned by respected educator Sizer (Education/Brown Univ.). Sizer's earlier Horace's Compromise (1984) was based on intimate ...

Horace's school: redesigning the American high school

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Sizer is without question one of the most interesting current thinkers on educational reform. His Horace's Compromise ( LJ 2/15/84), a landmark study of 80 high schools nationwide, stimulated ...

Contents

• Horaces Compromise I: 1
• Putting It Right: 9
• Horaces Committee: 16
• Emotions: 23
• Form 1040: 48
• Performance from Memory: 65
• Two Projects: 79
• Knowledge in Use: 98
• Exercises for an Early College: 118
• The Committees Report: 135
• Policy and Power: 169
• Will Horace Get His School?: 190
• Appendix A The Coalition of Essential Schools and: 207
• Appendix B A Budget and Schedule for Franklin: 223

About the author

Theordore R. Sizer, University Professor Emeritus at Brown Universtiy, is the chairman of the coalition of Essential Schools. He lives in Harvard, Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School
• Author: Theodore R. Sizer
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997
• ISBN: 0395755344, 9780395755341
• Length: 238 pages
• Subjects: Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Education / Secondary