The author of the bestselling Reality Therapy offers daring recommendations to "shake up educators" (Alexander Bassin).
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"[His recommendations will] shake up educators." -- --Alexander Bassin,Psychology Today
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The author of the bestselling Reality Therapy offers daring recommendations to "shake up educators" (Alexander Bassin).
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Should be required reading for all teachers,
By Jack Cook (Tennessee) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Schools Without Failure (Paperback)
I read this book only a few years after it was published while I was in college. I almost couldn't believe how logical and straight forward this basic idea was, and how few of its practices our national school system follows. Dr. William Glasser wrote a classic that will never be read or truly understood by most educators in our dumbed down, American education system. When I read the book, I cheered loudly, then realized that it was almost a lost cause. My wife attended several gradeless colleges that used this method of education, but when she tried to get a job, every major employer would not accept the type of student reports those schools had issued to her. Each job she applied for required only "grades" with numbers or letters from the familiar 4.o system. She was required to get her reports analyzed by a "legitimate" school system and translated into grades or numbers and only one university in the entire state offered to do so. My wife is a brilliant woman whose education shows through very clearly. Her non-traditional colleges were obviously educating students rather than attempting to place everything into a convenient category or number system. None of those wonderful gradeless colleges are operating anymore. I strongly wish that this book would become required reading for all educators in this country.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Highly recommended!,
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This review is from: Schools Without Failure (Paperback)
This book should be read by every School Board Member, Superintendent, Administrator and teacher. Gives excellent suggestions for providing our children with the quality education they need. Encourages educators to more action and less lip service.
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This book still provides many useful insights into education and social problems, even though it is originally published 30 years.
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Because of the widespread interest in the ideas of Reality Therapy, I conduct many day-long seminars for groups of people who work with problem children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
present grading system, successful identity, success identity, certainty principle, heterogeneous class, reality therapy, failure identity, classroom meetings, extra teacher, class meetings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reality Therapy, Pershing School, Upward Bound, Los Angeles, Ventura School, Head Start, Street School, New York, United States, Scientific American, Bill of Rights, Yeshiva University New!
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Because of the widespread interest in the ideas of Reality Therapy, I conduct many day-long seminars for groups of people who work with problem children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
present grading system, successful identity, success identity, certainty principle, heterogeneous class, reality therapy, failure identity, classroom meetings, extra teacher, class meetings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reality Therapy, Pershing School, Upward Bound, Los Angeles, Ventura School, Head Start, Street School, New York, United States, Scientific American, Bill of Rights, Yeshiva University New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry (Colophon Books) by William Glasser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Quality School by William Glasser in Back Matter
- Counseling with Choice Theory by William Glasser in Back Matter
- The Quality School Teacher: A Companion Volume to The Quality School by William Glasser in Back Matter
- Our Children Are by Nat Hentoff on page 26
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- The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil by James Davison Hunter on 6 pages
- Children Do Not Fail, Schools Do by Roy Hingley PhD on page 158, page 238, and Back Matter
- What to Look for in a Classroom: ...and Other Essays by Alfie Kohn on page 39, and page 275
- Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add by Charles J. Sykes on page 71, and Back Matter
- Choice Theory in the Classroom by William Glasser in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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