School Design: How Essential Schools Prepare Students for Higher Education

Notes on this Issue

Letter from Jill Davidson, Horace editor.

Feature Articles

How the CES Common Principles Help Essential Schools Create Transitions to Higher Education
by Jill Davidson

Opportunities to Stumble and Pick Themselves Up: Horace Interviews Nancy Faust Sizer on the Senior Year

Longitudinal Research Indicates CES Graduate Collegiate Success
by Jill Davidson

Excerpt from First in the Family: Advice about College from First-Generation Students
by Kathleen Cushman

Book Reviews

The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear edited by Raul Rogat Loeb
reviewed by Jill Davidson

Values Go to School: Exploring Ethics with Children Produced by Jonathon Diamond Associates in association with the Child Development Institute at Sara Lawrence College
reviewed by Jill Davidson

Don’t Forget to Write: 54 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons for Students 6-18 edited by Jenny Traig
reviewed by Jill Davidson

Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, and Richard J. Murname
reviewed by Jill Davidson

Resources

Where to Go for More: On How Essential Schools Prepare Students for Higher Education

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