Schooling for the Real World: The Essential Guide to Rigorous and Relevant Learning

"The melding of reform approaches by the Coalition of EssentialSchools and of the 'school-to-work' movement has been inevitable aswell as sensible. In Schooling for the Real World, Adria Steinberg,Kathleen Cushman, and Robert Riordan outline how these reforminitiatives have effectively coiled together and put theircollective experience into an accessible and usable form. Given itscomplexity, the practical reshaping of America's high schools willsurely be a messy business. The authors bring some order from theirexperience and thereby provide all of us a big boost ahead."(Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools)

"Schooling for the Real World offers many practical ways forteachers and schools to provide young people a genuine educationthat gives them experience in the world. Such experience addsconsiderable value to what is studied in school and helps youngpeople see themselves as citizens of their places, persons who arehighly valued for their seriousness of purpose and hard work byadults in their communities." (Vito Perrone, director of Programsin Teaching, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

"Schooling for the Real World provides a series of snapshotsdemonstrating the progress of schools towards the genuineintegration of schooling, the work place and the larger community.It explores the myriad dimensions of program, curriculum,standards, assessment, culture, staffing, and support--all of whicha school must consider seriously as it attempts to commit to newperspectives on teaching, learning, and the larger purposes ofeducation for the twenty-first century." (Paula Evans, principal,Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Massachusetts, and formerdirector of professional development, Annenberg Institute forSchool Reform)

"Thought-provoking and practical, Schooling for the Real Worldcalls upon educators to rethink the relationship between school andother institutions in society. I highly recommAnd it!" (SheilaJordan, superintendent, Alameda County Office of Education,California)