Alternative American Schools: Ideals in Action is a book for parents and teachers, for education professors, researchers, and students--indeed, for everyone who wants to understand the daily practices and philosophies of schools where awakening interests and learning how to learn is more important than content mastery. Drawing upon years of research and personal experiences, Korn clearly discusses fundamental contemporary educational issues through an analysis of seven long-lived, open, alternative schools, preschool through high school, public and private. This clearly written book explores the cooperative (and sometimes confusing) roles of teachers, students, and parents in these schools of choice; it also discusses their philosophical, financial, and physical survival needs. Once popularly dismissed as failed dreams, today these open learning environments continue to flourish and provide educational options to many enthusiastic learners.
Can the truth set you free if you don't know how to lie? Teddie -- Theodora Waterford Olds -- s trapped in truth. A menopausal court reporter with two grown children, a philandering husband, a bitchy sister, and an impossibly demanding, seldom truthful mother, Teddie will not, cannot tell even the whitest of lies. Yet, on a snowy Detroit afternoon, after she has thrown herself on a fleeing bank robber, change sets in. With the first lie to her mother, the famed photographer Thea Waterford, she begins to take control of her life. Cascading falsehoods follow. Her life disintegrates, then reshapes, as does her relationship with her dying mother.
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