Smaller Schools Yes! But how and when?

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	• High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Educatio n Thomas Toch Beacon Press, 2003 - 141 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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Makes the case for small schools!

Thomas Toch provides several examples of successful small schools in this book. In each chapter, he provides the details about a relatively new small school. Each school has a different and interesting approach. It was amazing to read about the positive effects that the small school environment has on students. The book demonstrates that it is possible to create small schools without major restructuring and a great deal of additional funding.

The book is an easy and enjoyable read. With each school's story, Toch makes a very compelling case for small schools.

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Smaller is Better

Thomas Toch has proven that precious things come in small packages. I agree with the author that big high schools have lost the personal touch that is needed to build relationships with students. Mr. Toch has done his homework by providing working examples and models that can be applied to any school. I recommend this book to any educator looking for a simple and concise answer to the complicated and vastly over sized American public high school systems.

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Smaller Schools Yes! But how and when?

I read this book and found it to be quite interesting. The cases that were presented were positive examples of successful implementation of how to make high school a more personal and meaningful experience for the students. I strongly support the idea of making high schools as a whole smaller in size. The difficulty arises in how we make this concept universal to all of the students in high schools across America. I liked that the school's that were presented represneted a broad spectrum of America, this helps to support universality. I also belive that smaller schools will bolster students self esteem, we need to find a way to have it implemented broadly and fairly. With pockets as deep as The Gates, it is no wonder there was success, and I have to wonder about biases in evaluations.

Smaller Schools Yes! But how and when?

A good book over all but, I think it only serves to add support to those that already believe in "Downsizing" vice converting the skeptics. A good read and definately fuel for a good start to changing the way we now do things.

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Reporting from the front lines of America's most important education reform effort?the movement for small schools

The basic blueprint of American high schools hasn't changed in a century, and we are paying a heavy price. Anonymous, enormous, and resistant
to change, huge American high schools are incapable of educating all children to high levels today, as dropout rates and remedial courses in
college make increasingly clear.

High Schools on a Human Scale shows the huge power of small schools, perhaps the nation's fastest- growing reform idea. Tom Toch takes us
inside four very different small schools around the country?from an entrepreneur's high-tech charter school in San Diego to a school formed
out the of the breakup of a huge public high school in Manhattan. All are small enough so that every student is known well by adults, and the results are remarkable. Together they show the proven virtues of small schools?safety, community, and high achievement.

This book is sponsored in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's $40 million effort to support small schools nationwide.

Thomas Toch is a widely respected education journalist, for many years at Education Week and U.S. News and World Report. He is currently writer-in-residence at the National Center on Education and the Economy, and lives near Washington, D.C.

Praise for High Schools on a Human Scale:

"Imagine a high school where every student knows every teacher and most
other students. Where security comes not from metal detectors but from
everyone's knowing who doesn't belong. Where community replaces bureaucracy and no one is lost in the crowd--because there is no crowd.
With his portraits of five small high schools that break the mold, Tom Toch makes an engaging and often provocative case for a less industrial, and more personal, brand of education."
--Jonathan Rauch, The Brookings Institution, author of Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working

"Toch has written a compelling account of the promise and challenges of smaller more personalized schools. High Schools on a Human Scale is required reading for educators, policymakers, and anyone else seeking to modernize public education to better serve all students."
--Andrew Rotherham, Director, 21st Century Schools Project, Progressive Policy Institute

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