These Schools Belong to You and Me : Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools (Paperback)

from debnance

I am a person who is terribly worried about our schools. Maybe you are, too. I feel so strongly about the importance of public education in a democracy that I could have written the title of this book. This author has many, many years of experience working in the schools of America. Early on, s...

from benuathanasia

Thoroughly enjoyable. I loved the thematic arrangement of the chapters. Regrettably, the authors don't present any new findings - they just drive home things most educators have known for years; treating each subject as an island is bad, standardized testing destroys the vast majority of students...

from Bidwell-Glaze

I was looking forward to this book, because I had enjoyed Deborah Meier's earlier book. Unfortunately, the experience of both authors of the book These schools belong to you and me is so different from my experience in public schools that I keep thinking that they are writing about charter school...

from EllieNYC

These Schools Belong to You and Me by Deborah Meier (and Emily Gasoi) did something that even few fictional works do to me: it brought me to tears. Deborah Meier, founder of the outstanding Central Park East school in 1974 (that I was privileged to visit when attending the Bank Street College of ...

from EllieNYC

These Schools Belong to You and Me by Deborah Meier (and Emily Gasoi) did something that even few fictional works do to me: it brought me to tears. Deborah Meier, founder of the outstanding Central Park East school in 1974 (that I was privileged to visit when attending the Bank Street College of ...