Smart Schools, Smart Kids: Why Do Some Schools Work? [Paperback]

Innovative reformers are transforming every aspect of the nineteenth-century factory-model school into a new kind of public school capable of educating kids for twenty-first century challenges.Smart Schools, Smart Kidsshows how.

A revolution in education is sweeping across America.Smart Schools, Smart Kidstakes readers into dozens of pioneering schools across the country to describe successful programs and the results they have achieved.Edward B. Fiske is the founder and editor of the Fiske Guide to Colleges. A former Education Editor of the New York Times, Fiske is known around the world for his award-winning writing on topics ranging from trends in American higher education to school reform in Southeast Asia, New Zealand and South Africa.