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Making Large Schools Work

The Advantages of Small Schools

By: Arthur Shapiro

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Paperback | 16 November 2009

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210 Pages

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American schools are undergoing huge changes, among the most significant of which is that their size is increasing rapidly. This book lays out very practical approaches to making our ever-increasingly large schools work more effectively. By closely analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of large schools, the author can provide effective tools and strategies for dealing with them. Shapiro digs away at the foreseen and unforeseen consequences of this rapid escalation of size, and presents practical, tried-and-true strategies for undoing some of the more unfortunate results of this social trend or drift.

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Arthur Shapiro is eminently qualified to write a treatise on such an important and prescient subject as reforming the way we structure American high schools. Much of the literature on the topic is prescriptive without mindful attention to reasoned thinking and extant research. Shapiro provides both. Making Large Schools Work debunks widely held assumptions about the efficacy of large schools and will offer educators and policy makers alike with philosophical and scientific data needed to decentralize high schools into small learning communities. The book brilliantly combines theory and practice in its attempt to eschew complacency about such a critical topic. Detractors will point to the impracticality of such advocacy given the current economic climate. Don't allow such a subterfuge to derail our long-term efforts to improve our schools. The vision for high schools that Shapiro advocates, realistically, won't transform schools overnight, but this volume is necessarily to lay the groundwork necessary for the hard work ahead. Well written with many examples and case studies, this volume will contribute mightily to efforts to reform our high schools in the twenty-first century.

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