Real Learning, Real Work: School-to-Work As High School Reform (Transforming Teaching) [Library Binding]

Adria Steinberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 6, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0415917921 | ISBN-13: 978-0415917926 | Edition: 1

A central paradox of American education today is that classrooms are often not conducive to learning. Young people who are bright, active participants in outside-of- school settings become disengaged or hostile in the classroom. Through detailed portrayals of innovative programs, "Real Learning, Real Work" demonstrates how students can learn to embrace what they learn in the classroom when they are able to use the intellectual tools of the sciences and the humanities to make sense of their outside experience.
Contributors: Adria Steinberg, Rob Riordan and Margaret Vickers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Heres an extremely valuable contribution to the vitally important but perplexing problem of how to ease the transition of young people from school to the world of work. Practical, thoughtful, and wise, this is a valuable guide for practitioners as well as policy makers.
–Robert B. Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Brandeis University

If educators, business leaders or policy analysts miss this book, they are ignoring the most promising route to improving American high schools--the melding of improved academic learning, with actual experience in the workplace, in community service and in other realms.
–Harold Howe II, former United States Commissioner of Education

Drawing from research and from a fistful of telling examples, Steinberg and her colleagues make a convincing case for a powerful secondary education that is situated in real places as well as in traditional disciplines. This is an important book that tells the stories of better secondary schools and reminds us how complex and yet how commonsensical a sound education for adolescents can and must become.
–Theodore R. Sizer, founder and Chairman of the Coalition of Essential Schools

At last a book that has something for everyone who has ever thought about why we must reform high schools. This book should be required reading for teachers and principals in secondary schools throughout the country.
–Doris Alvarez, principal of Hoover High School, 1997 National Principal of the Year

About the Author

Future in Boston. She has 30 years of experience in the education field and is a former editor of The Harvard Education Newsletter.

Product Details

• Library Binding: 198 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 6, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415917921
• ISBN-13: 978-0415917926
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,723,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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