Carl Glickman draws from his more than fifteen years of experience as director of a nationally validated school improvement program with more than one hundred diverse K-12 schools, and more recently, his two years spent examining some of the most successful progressive schools in the United States. He offers proven advice on leadership formats, approaches, and strategies for enhancing teacher thinking and collective action-- and provides specific examples of curriculum, methods and strategies for improving student achievement while building citizen capabilities. He explains the types of standards and policies that can protect unique schools and document success for students. And he shows how sustaining progressive schools over the long haul offers the greatest hope for reinvigorating an informed and caring citizenry.
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"...Glickman helps us reflect on the important role schooling plays increasing a democratic, participatory, inclusive and diverse society." (The School Administrator, January 2004)
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"Carl Glickman calls us to examine the foundations of our educational enterprise. At this time of intense national soul-searching, Holding Sacred Ground speaks to all educators who value the democratic spirit, not only in the U.S. but worldwide."
— David Chojnacki, executive director, Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools
— David Chojnacki, executive director, Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools
"A very important book: lucid, lively, and readable. . . a work of courage and care. It's Carl to the core. I only wish that I had this book before I started so many school and community initiatives."
— Deborah Meier, co-principal of The Mission Hill School, Boston and founder of a network of schools in East Harlem, New York
"Glickman's brilliant insights supported by his experience as a teacher, researcher, and school reformer provide compelling and often unsettling arguments that the democratic life of this country depends on our commitment to quality schooling for all children. No informed citizen can afford to ignore this book."
— Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Candler Professor of Urban Education, Emory University
"No contemporary educator has thought and written more deeply about democracy and leadership than Carl Glickman. Holding Sacred Ground bears careful reading; speaking to the heart of America's on-going love-hate relationship with public education."
— Ted Sizer, founder and chair emeritus, Coalition of Essential Schools and former dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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- The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem by Deborah Meier on 4 pages
- An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America by Benjamin R. Barber on 4 pages
- Democratic Education (Princeton Paperbacks) by Amy Gutmann on page 205, page 244, and page 311
- Sometimes a Shining Moment by Eliot Wigginton on page 63, page 189, and Back Matter
- Supervision of Instruction: A Developmental Approach by Carl D. Glickman on page 85, page 119, and page 149
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- A Reason to Teach: Creating Classrooms of Dignity and Hope by James A. Beane in Back Matter
- Learning to Trust: Transforming Difficult Elementary Classrooms Through Developmental Discipline by Marilyn Watson in Back Matter
- Democratic Leadership in Education (Leading Teachers, Leading Schools Series) by Phil Woods in Back Matter
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