"Our role is to look at every student as an individual and to help him or her grow. That means not only educating them in the three Rs, but teaching them how to

Since the late 1970s, Theodore Sizer has studied and worked among hundreds of American high schools. His research was first published in 1984 in Horace's Compro

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Small Schools, Big Ideas shows how the principle-based and equity-focused model from the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) can be used to redesign existing s