Small Schools and Strong Communities: A Third Way of School Reform

by Kenneth A. Strike

Book Overview

In this insightful book, Kenneth Strike develops a new vision of school reform. Arguing that good schools are first and foremost strong communities, Strike maintains that the small schools movement is the best hope to create such schools. He shows how the core assumptions that characterize the "community paradigm" are preferable to those of standards-based reform and choice. Part I examines student disengagement as an issue largely unaddressed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807750581
• ISBN13: 9780807750582
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"