School Reform Behind the Scenes

By Joseph P.McDonald, Thomas Hatch, Edward Kirby, Nancy Ames, Norris M. Haynes, and Edward T. Joyner

This is the story of how four of the largest and most successful reform organizations in the United States--Education Development Center (EDC), School Development Program (SDP), Harvard Project Zero (PZ), and Coalition of Essential Schools (CES)--came together to form a unique partnership know as ATLAS (Authentic Teaching, Learning and Assessment). This volume provides a detailed glimpse of the individual workings of these influential organizations and, more importantly, how they combined efforts to uncover the craft of school reform--what teachers, administrators, and staff developers actually do to stimulate and support change. Through personal interviews with Janet Whitla, James Comer, Howard Gardner, Theodore Sizer, and others, you will hear the voices of renowned reformers telling another side of the school reform story to complement the policy side.

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