Theodore R Sizer: 4 books
The Red Pencil
Convictions from Experience in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
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 identifies three crucial areas in which policy discussion about public education has been dangerously silent....
Horace's Compromise
The Dilemma of the American High School
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
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...
Horace's Hope
What Works for the American High School
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997
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...
Horace's School
Redesigning the American High School
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1997
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.