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In schools we trust : creating communities of learning in an era of testing and standardization
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"In this exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and at the same time puts forward a very different positive vision, forged in the success stories of small public ...
"In this exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and at the same time puts forward a very different positive vision, forged in the success stories of small public schools she and her colleagues have created in Boston and New York. These nationally acclaimed schools are built, famously, around trusting teachers to use their own judgment, inviting parents into a close relationship with the school, and surrounding children with adults who know them well."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Deborah Meier
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- Language
- English
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- Boston : Beacon Press, [2002]
- ©2002
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- 200 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807031421, 0807031429
- OCLC
- ocm48613160
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-193).
- Learning in the company of adults -- Experiments in trust : The Mission Hill School and others -- Parents and schools -- Teachers trusting teachers -- Trusting each other's agendas and intentions : the dynamics of race and class -- Why tests don't test what we think they do -- Standardization versus standards -- The achievement gap -- Scaling up : stacking the odds in favor of the best -- Democracy and public education
- Learning in the trusted company of adults -- Experiments in trust : Mission Hill -- Parents and schools : the power and limits of parental involvement -- Teachers trusting teachers -- Trusting each other's agendas and intentions : racism and other matters -- Why tests don't test what we think they do -- Standardization vs. standards -- The achievement gap -- Scaling up -- Democracy and public education