Creating New Schools: How Small Schools Are Changing American Education.Creating New Schools: How Small Schools Are Changing American Education offers fairly detailed accounts of experiments in educational reform in Boston with the Pilot School Charter program and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with its Coalition Schools Campus School Plan. The contributors to this book, brought together by Evans Ev·ans , Herbert McLean 1882-1971. American anatomist who isolated four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1922). Clinchy, believe these initiatives provide a model of reform for American schools. Contributors, including Seymour Sarason, Robert Pearlman and Linda Darling-Hammond Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, where she serves as principal investigator for the School Redesign Network and the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute. , present insights into school reform involving teachers' unions and the connection of the central office to reform efforts. Though the title is somewhat misleading, this is an excellent book about successful reform in Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. and New York New York, state, United StatesNew York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The essays deal far more with reforming operational patterns in larger systems than they do with small schools. The writers suggest small schools push for "curricular autonomy"-- the capacity to develop their own curricular mandates. Other necessary ingredients are parental choice and some degree of fiscal autonomy. The contributers detail a school improvement plan that decentralizes a unit of a larger system into autonomous and somewhat independent smaller units. (Creating New Schools: How Small Schools Are Changing American Education, edited by Evans Clinchy, Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Ave., New York, N.Y. 10027, 2000, 226 pp. with index, AASA AASA American Association of School Administrators AASA Asian American Student Association AASA Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia AASA Aging and Adult Services Administration AASA Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army member price $21.50. Available from AASA Online (www.aasa.org) or from AASA Distribution Center, P.O. Box 411, Annapolis Jct., Md. 20701-0411. Toll free: 888-782-2272 or 301-617-7802, Stock #SA5-007) |
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