District Change to Support Essential Schools

Notes on this Issue

Letter from Jill Davidson, Horace editor.

Feature Articles

Conditions for Small School Success in Boston: Lessons from the Pilot Schools
by Jill Davidson

An Excerpt from Choosing Small: The Essential Guide to High School Conversion
by Jay Feldman, M. Lisette Lopez, and Kathering G. Simon

What We Know Better, We Do Better: A Study of System Change in Humble, Texas
by Jill Davidson

Horace Talks with Ted Sizer: The History, Limitations, and Possibilities of School Districts

The Stars Aligned: A Study of System Change in Colorado's Mapleton Public Schools
by Jill Davidson

Sidebar: Skyview High School and College Summit: Change Now for Students Now

Horace Talks with Warren Simmons: "Smart Districts"

Indianapolis' Commitment to Small High Schools: Finding New Ways to Say Yes

Sidebar: Indianapolis Conversion and Start-up Schools and Arlington High School's Small Schools

Horace Talks with Eric Nadelstern: New York City's Autonomy Zone

Book Reviews

"Teachers Have it Easy": The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers by Dave Eggers, Daniel Moulthrop, and Ninive Clements Calegari reviewed by Sarah Mayper

What It Takes To Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Get Out by David Marcus
reviewed by Sarah Mayper

Resources

Where to Go for More: Resources for District Transformation that Support Essential Schools

Go to the Source: More about the Schools Featured in this Issue