In this important manifesto, famed education reformer Ted Sizer examines 15 key issues with our current High School system, and shows what can be done to address each. Issue One: The Problem Issue Two: Growing Up AmericanIssue Three: Learning Issue Four: DifferencesIssue Five: The Language of SchoolingIssue Six: TimeIssue Seven: Space and CostsIssue Eight: CoursesIssue Nine: TechnologyIssue Ten: PedagogyIssue Eleven: TestingIssue Twelve: ChoiceIssue Thirteen: FaithIssue Fourteen: MoralityIssue Fifteen: The Prospect
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Deborah Meier is a renowned educator, MacArthur Fellow, and the founder of the small schools movement. She is on the faculty of the Steinhardt school of education at New York University.
Neil Hellegers grew up in New Jersey and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a BA in theater arts and a minor in psychology before getting an MFA in acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to New York City in 2003 and, since then, has made a career of theatrical performance, percussion, theater education, and audiobook narration. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.