This book describes the premises and practices of how schools become democratic, moral,
and purposeful. The introduction describes the need for schools to reclarify their enduring …

For comments and suggestions on the manuscript, thanks are due to Michelle Fine, Karen
Seashore Louis, Fred Newmann, Diana Oxley, and Leslie Siskin. I also want to …

In recent years, the large comprehensive high school has been a sub ject of growing critique
by researchers and reformers." Factory model" schools have been criticized for their …

The size of any school is a defining dimension of its structure. The number of students a
school serves has a profound influence on many elements of its organization. A large …

This chapter focuses on the complicated relationship between school restructuring and the
improvement of classroom teaching The analysis examines the causal mechanisms linking …

Adopting a problem-centered approach to school reform, this article contends that
restructuring American secondary schools first requires understanding the “inhumane” …

In this paper, we report on an initial study of teachers and schools using Howard Gardner's
Theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI). We conducted telephone interviews and later visited …

Implementation Study of Smaller Learning Communities: Final Report -- May 2008 (PDF) Page
1 US Department of Education Implementation Study of Smaller Learning Communities Final …

There is not a specific blueprint here for a top‐to‐bottom restructuring of the system. That's
been tried and is being tried, with the result being a high degree of failure. In any case, such …

Government policies at the state, local, and federal levels have always shaped the daily
lives of US schools. Issues of equity and access dominate, and the newer issue of global …