Redesigning Schools Lessons for the 21st Century [Hardcover]

Should be read by all who are not satisfied with the status quo in education.
--Teachers College Record

This book patiently and persuasively asks us to rethink before we `redesign' schools, to question many of our deeply ingrained beliefs about learning and schooling, and to move beyond those which no longer meet the test of common sense. It mercifully gives us no ready-to-implement school reform blueprint but rather the necessary design of how to think well about learning and teaching and schooling.
?Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools, university professor emeritus, Brown UniversityIntroduction: New Schools for a New Century
Part One: Believing
1. A New Belief System
2. Leading with Belief
Part Two: Wiring
3. Wiring Fundamentals
4. Rewiring a School
Part Three: Tuning
5. Tuning Challenges
6. A Tuning Protocol
Conclusion: Scaling Up by Scaling Down?Redesigning School provides new fundamental insights into how to rethink school reform. It manages to stay very close to students, teachers, and schools, while at the same time linking school redesign to national efforts and broad-based accountability. Traveling effortlessly back and forth from the big to the small picture is no small feat. The concepts of `rewiring,' `tuning,' and `lateral accountability' are new and powerful analytic tools with immense practical value. One no longer needs to choose between case studies and macro reform. It's all here in one book.? --Michael Fullan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

?This very probing analysis exposes deep-seated barriers to all school reform and makes powerful and challenging suggestions for overcoming the problems. It is a very important contribution, and a must read for all concerned about schooling in America.? --James lSH