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Real Learning, Real Work: School-to-Work As High School Reform
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This book demonstrates how students can embrace what they learn in the classroom and go on to use the sciences and humanities to make sense of their own outside experiences…. More >>
Real Learning, Real Work: School-to-Work As High School Reform
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Education Reform at the “Edge of Chaos”: Constructing ETCH for an optimal learning environment
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ETCH frames an alternative educational theoretical base – a hybrid complex adaptive systems theory model for education – that more effectively meets the demands to prepare students for the 21st century. ETCH differs by focusing on the systemic, autopoietic nature of schools. It considers the open, fluid processes of school systems as a dissipative structure— nonlinear in our ability to completely predict the results of any specific intervention…. More >>
Education Reform at the “Edge of Chaos”: Constructing ETCH for an optimal learning environment
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Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society
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When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of public school system that was fair and equitable and that encouraged new relationships between teachers and students. When that movement for school reform ran head-on into the neo-conservative takeover of the Department of Education and its No Child Left Behind strategy for school change, a new model of federal … More >>
Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society
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