Rethinking School Reform

Views From The Classroom

Edited by Linda Christensen and Stan Karp

Rethinking School Reform puts classrooms and teaching at the center of the debate over how to improve public schools. Drawing on some of the best writing from the quarterly journal Rethinking Schools, this new collection offers a primer on a broad range of pressing issues, including school vouchers and funding, multiculturalism, standards and testing, teacher unions, bilingual education, and federal education policy.

Informed by the experience and passion of teachers who walk daily into real classrooms, Rethinking School Reform examines how various reform efforts promote — or prevent — the kind of teaching that can bring equity and excellence to all our children, and it provides compelling, practical descriptions of what such teaching looks like.

From this page you will find:

• The Introduction | PDF

• The Table of Contents | PDF
  

• Links to supplemental materials mentioned in the book.

July, 2003   Paperback   320 pp.  
ISBN 0-942961-29-3

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"This collection of lively, tough-minded essays shows us how schooling could look if done well, and it doesn't gloss over the problems we face getting there. At a time when so many new "reformers" threaten schools and children with their standardized, privatized prescriptions, Rethinking School Reform reminds us that real school reform means making serious, even radical changes in what's going on in the classroom."
  — Deborah Meier, author of In Schools We Trust and co-principal of Mission Hill School, Roxbury, MA.