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Reinventing the Middle School »

Authors: T. Dickinson, James A. Beane
ISBN-13: 9780415925938, ISBN-10: 0415925932
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: T. Dickinson

Thomas S. Dickinson is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana State University and has been the editor of Middle School Journal.

Book Synopsis

Many contemporary American middle schools are stuck in a state of "arrested development," failing to implement the original concept of middle schools to a varying, though equally corruptive degrees. The individual chapters of the book outline in detail how to counter this dangerous trend, offering guidance to those who seek immediate, significant, internal reforms before we lose the unique value of middle schools for our nation's adolescents.

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Introduction: Reform and Reinvention
1	Reinventing the Middle School: A Proposal to Counter Arrested Development	3
2	The School and the Child and the Child in the School	21
3	Hope for Sandy: Transformation Points: A Reinvention Paradigm	39
4	The Arc of Equity in Reinvented Middle Schools	56
5	Standards, Students, and Exploration: Creating a Curriculum Intersection of Excellence	79
6	Connecting Caring and Action: Teachers Who Create Learning Communities in Their Classrooms	96
7	On Headpieces of Straw: How Middle Level Students View Their Schooling	117
8	High-Quality Learning Opportunities in High Poverty Middle Schools: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality	155
9	Transforming Organizational Structures for Young Adolescents and Adult Learning	176
10	Our Turn? Teaming and the Professional Development of Teachers	201
11	The Role of Technology for Learning in the Reinvented Middle School	218
12	Transformation and Context in Middle Grades Reform	249
13	Coming Together to Raise Our Children: Community and the Reinvented Middle School	269
14	Engineering Success through Purposeful Articulation	288
15	Reinventing Middle Level Teacher Preparation via Professional Development Schools	302
16	On a Good Day Everyone Grows: Reflections on the Reinvention of a School	321
	Author Biographies	329
	Index	337
	Author Index	341