Bridging the Progressive-Traditional Divide in Education Reform

Education & Teaching

Nehring, James

Charner-Laird, Megin

Szczesiul, Stacy

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

This book offers to parents and teachers life in the secondary classrooms with punch and spark. It combines fine descriptions while giving the essence of teanage life. Author James Nehring tells what your kids never will as he discusses what he thinks about it all. Most importantly, he exposes the pitfalls and opportunities facing teachers. First Ballantine Books Edition.

Why Do We Gotta Do This Stuff, Mr. Nehring?: Notes from a Teacher's Day in School

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Ballantine Books

The School Within Us: The Creation of an Innovative Public School (Suny Series, Democracy and Education)

The inspirational story of a group of teachers, parents, and students who face and overcome many challenges in their struggle to create a very unconventional school within a school.

The School within Us: The Creation of an Innovative Public School (SUNY series, Democracy and Education)

SUNY Press

This book tells the story of a community of teachers, parents, and students who thoughtfully took charge of their very conventional circumstances and created a very unconventional school. With authority and liveliness, Nehring, a veteran teacher who led the development of the school, describes the many challenges faced and overcome in The Bethlehem Lab School from its inception as a proposal in 1988 to the graduation of its first senior class. Working on the fault line between theory and practice, Nehring and his colleagues built a school on performance-based assessment in a state resurgent with standardized testing. Committed to small scale in a suburban community with a typically large high school and wide elective offering, the Lab School-which functions as a school within a school-offered a highly focused, integrated curriculum, culminating in a senior internship program and thesis project. With students and parents closely involved, the school developed a democratic culture attuned to many voices and a high degree of collaboration. Throughout its development, the Lab School faced skepticism from colleagues and community members but continually proved them wrong as it raised private foundation money, won crucial faculty votes, attracted a diverse student population, succeeded with competitive college admissions for its graduates, and won strong support from students and parents.

State University of New York Press

Direct from the heart of public school reform, James Nehring offers a complete tour of one charter school-walking us through the school's vision of learning, the day-to-day challenges, the many achievements, and the lessons learned. From the unique perspective of school principal and then full-time teacher, Nehring takes us deep into the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School, providing rare insight into the strategic issues involved in launching a new school. This engaging narrative is certain to add credibility and inspiration to all those who are interested in learning how charter schools operate and how public education might be renewed in the process. The message of this book is at once simple and profound: Charter schools work!

Upstart Startup: Creating and Sustaining a Public Charter School (Series on School Reform, 34)

Teachers College Pr

Direct from the heart of public school reform, James Nehring offers a complete tour of one charter school - walking us through the school's vision of learning, the day-to-day challenges, the many achievements, and the lessons learned. From the unique perspective of school principal and then full-time teacher, Nehring takes us deep into the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School, providing rare insight into the strategic issues involved in launching a new school. This engaging narrative is certain to add credibility and inspiration to all those who are interested in learning how charter schools operate and how public education might be renewed in the process. The message of this book is at once simple and profound: charter schools work!

Any parent wondering what befalls his or her child at school should read this book. DSWilliam Finnegan, author of Crossing the Line

M. Evans and Company, Inc.

This book brings together a variety of connected voices which consider potential ways forward for school reform. By demonstrating how the ‘subject-centered’ and ‘student-centered’ models of education can, and have been working together in various contexts, the text sets out a compelling case for an emerging movement that unites ideologies and pedagogical traditions which have traditionally been considered to be at odds with one another. In drawing from historical sources, the full range of contemporary research, and a series of investigations led by the authors, this book documents the deep back-story of school reform, and explains the powerful and largely unacknowledged consensus on what constitutes excellence in teaching and learning. This book will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of school reform and educational leadership. It will also appeal to graduate students, researchers and postgraduates in the fields of history of education, educational leadership, teaching and learning, and curriculum studies.

Why Teach?: Notes and Questions from a Life in Education

One year out of college, James Nehring landed “accidentally” in teaching and soon discovered his love for the profession. But he was surrounded by a school system consumed with order, efficiency, rules, and punishment. He wanted to change the system. So began a quest that became a career. Why Teach? Notes and Questions from a Life in Education is a journey inside American education and a story of self-discovery. Why Teach? is the perfect introductory text for an aspiring teacher, a source of reflection for fellow educators, and a compelling insider critique of the system from pre-school to graduate school. In an age dominated by social science, Why Teach? makes the case for a humanistic approach to schooling.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

One year out of college, James Nehring landed “accidentally” in teaching and soon discovered his love for the profession. But he was surrounded by a school system consumed with order, efficiency, rules, and punishment. He wanted to change the system. So began a quest that became a career. Why Teach? Notes and Questions from a Life in Education is a journey inside American education and a story of self-discovery. Why Teach? is the perfect introductory text for an aspiring teacher, a source of reflection for fellow educators, and a compelling insider critique of the system from pre-school to graduate school. In an age dominated by social science, Why Teach? makes the case for a humanistic approach to schooling.

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Books by Nehring, James

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Bridging the Progressive-Traditional Divide in Education Reform

Why Do We Gotta Do This Stuff, Mr. Nehring?: Notes from a Teacher's Day in School

The School within Us: The Creation of an Innovative Public School (SUNY series, Democracy and Education)

The School Within Us: The Creation of an Innovative Public School (Suny Series, Democracy and Education)

Upstart Startup: Creating and Sustaining a Public Charter School (Series on School Reform, 34)

Upstart Startup: Creating and Sustaining a Public Charter School (Series on School Reform, 34)

Why Do We Gotta Do This Stuff, Mr. Nehring?: Notes from a Teacher's Day in School

Bridging the Progressive-Traditional Divide in Education Reform

Why Teach?: Notes and Questions from a Life in Education

Why Teach?: Notes and Questions from a Life in Education