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Title: In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization by Deborah Meier ISBN: 0-8070-3151-8 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: enlightening and enjoyable
Comment: I chose this book as a class assignment. Our directive was to give a presentation on an Educational theorist, and Deborah Meier's name was on the list. Little did I know the choice of Mrs. Meier's book would be such an enlightening and enjoyable introduction to her as well as her thoughts about the most effective strategies for education in today's society. Meier's writes with incredible insight and clarity about the things that are most important to her in education: small classes, building relationships, active parent and community participation in the school life of children, and offering all children options in the type of public school education they receive. She uses examples of her work at Central Park East and Mission Hill schools to illustrate her ideas and successes. These examples were especially helpful to me as a novice in the area of elementary and secondary education. Never one to mince works, and using well placed humor, she offers her opinions on standardized testing and the dangers they present to students and education. Meier's offers an alternative to standardization - standards and also outlines a broader vision for education in the future. All of my children have completed elementary and secondary school. However, as a soon to be grandmother, this book will be one of those that I recommend to my daughter and son-in-law as they begins their new journey into parenthood.
Rating: 5
Summary: Meier Does it Again
Comment: Deborah Meier does it agian with her new book on the importance of buidling trudting realitonships among all the parties in schools. A must read for those interested in truly democratic public education. She discusses the iomperative for studenss, especially teenagers, of having important adults who care about them and know them well in theri lives, and how a school can be organziaed around that pricnipal.
A major theme of the book is how trust built on relatinships is a much better and stronger form of accountability than the standardization that is currently in vogue -- which actually buiilds distrust. Techer-Student, teacher parent, teacher-teacher are among those discussed.
She then spends some time illustrating the weaknesses and dangers of relying on standardized tests. Lastly she lays out her broader vision of what could be.
Rating: 5
Summary: The personal challenge
Comment: Deborah Meier issues a personal challenge to the reader to deepen our work and our commitment to the role public schools play in our democratic society. Her voice is clear and powerful.
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Title: The Power of Their Ideas : Lessons from America from a Small School in Harlem by Deborah Meier ISBN: 0807031135 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 16 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Education by Thomas Toch ISBN: 080703245X Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Will Standards Save Public Education by Deborah Meier, Joshua Cohen, Joel Rogers ISBN: 0807004413 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 24 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for for Creating Schools that Work by Linda Darling-Hammond ISBN: 0787959421 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 03 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: One Kid at a Time: Big Lessons from a Small School (Series on School Reform) by Eliot Levine, Ted Sizer, Tom Peters ISBN: 0807741531 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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