Smart Schools, Smart Kids: Why Do Some Schools Work?

by Edward Fiske, Jane Mallison, Dave Hatcher, and Edward B. Fiske

Book Overview

A revolution in education is sweeping across America. Smart Schools, Smart Kids takes readers into dozens of pioneering schools across the country to describe successful programs and how they work, the problems they have encountered, and the results they have achieved. Innovative reformers are transforming every aspect of the "nineteenth-century factory-model school" into a new kind of public school capable of educating kids for twenty-first century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671792121
• ISBN13: 9780671792121
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Thought provoking information on why schools work, or do not

Edward Fiske has distilled some of the information about a movement in education which could make the public school system a viable institution for all children. Without change in our schools, there is a serious question of whether they will provide the needed training to make our children readily employable in the global economy, and the changes discussed in this book might well be a beginning for a new type of school that will allow children to succeed in life, rather than just put in time until "graduation" from high school. I would highly recommend the book for anyone interested in working toward change from outdated educational methods to a different approach to teaching and learning which could offer real hope for making our schools a more positive factor in shaping children's lives.