The list below contains recommended books for sale through Amazon. We also have a list of books reviewed in each issue of Horace which can also be purchased through Amazon.
Jaqueline Ancess
Beating the Odds: High Schools as Communities of Commitment
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Tina Blythe, David Allen, Barbara Schieffelin Powell
Looking Together at Student Work : A Companion Guide to Assessing Student Learning (The Series on School Reform)
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Linda Darling-Hammond
The Right to Learn : A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work
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Robert Evans
The Human Side of Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real Life Problems of Innovation
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Robert L. Hampel
The Last Little Citadel : American High Schools Since 1940 (Study of High Schools)
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Alfie Kohn
The Schools Our Children Deserve
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Susan Kammeraad-Campbell
Doc : The Story of Dennis Littky and His Fight for a Better School
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McDonald, Joe
Redesigning School: Lessons for the 21st Century
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Other Books by McDonald:
Teaching: Making Sense of an Uncertain Craft
Graduation by Exhibition: Assessing Genuine Achievement
Deborah Meier
Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools, by Deborah Meier, Theodore Sizer, and Nancy Faust Sizer
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In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization
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Other books by Meier
Will Standards Save Public Education?
The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem
Newmann, Fred M. and Associates
Authentic Achievement: Restructuring Schools for Intellectual Quality
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Arthur G. Powell, Eleanor Farrar, David K. Cohen
The Shopping Mall High School : Winners and Losers in the Educational Marketplace
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Kathy Simon
Moral Questions in the Classroom: How to Get Kids to Think Deeply About Real Life and Their School Work
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Other books by Simon
Teaching as Inquiry: Asking Hard Questions to Improve Practice and Student Achievementby Alexandra Weinbaum, David Allen, Tina Blythe, Katherine Simon, Steve Seidel, Catherine Rubin
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Theodore R. and Nancy F. Sizer
Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools, by Deborah Meier, Theodore Sizer, and Nancy Faust Sizer
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The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract
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Other books by Sizer
Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School
Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School
Places for Learning, Places for Joy: Speculations on American School Reform
Wasley, Patricia, Robert Hampel & Richard Clark
Kids and School Reform
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Other books by Wasley:
Stirring the Chalkdust: Tales of Teachers Changing Classroom Practice
Teachers Who Lead: The Rhetoric of Reform and the Realities of Practice
Grant Wiggins
Assessing Student Performance : Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing
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Other Books by Wiggins:
Understanding by Design
Educative Assessment : Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance
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