Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School by Theodore R. Sizer
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- Pub. Date: September 2004
- 272pp
- Sales Rank: 78,763
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 2004
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Format: Paperback, 272pp
- Sales Rank: 78,763
- ISBN-13: 9780618516063
- ISBN: 0618516069
Synopsis
First published in 1984, this best-selling classic is Theodore Sizer's eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, he 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 compromise for our children's educational futures resonates just as strongly today as it did when first published.
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"In addition to its roaming-the-halls insights, this book offers (a) far-reaching blueprint for change."---Newsweek
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Theordore R. Sizer, University Professor Emeritus at Brown Universtiy, is the chairman of the coalition of Essential Schools. He lives in Harvard, Massachusetts.
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Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High Schoolby Anonymous
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December 06, 1999: Sizer's observations and accurate description of students from different backgrounds is sensitive and visual. I enjoyed the 'roaming-the-halls' writing style--not having taught yet, it enabled me to get a very real sense of a highschool classroom. The 'five imperatives for better schools' were a great idea-- perhaps feasible if incorporated gradually and in combination with the routine core curriculum.
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