Re: Kindergarten Reading Exit Exams

["L. Cirincione" <lindac15@MINDSPRING.COM>]

Ken -
I looked up CES on their website. I will forward 2 emails with info about
them. They sound like the concept I proposed would fit into their concept,
but their schools vary widely. Some seem to have the multi-age concept &
some have the "core skills achievement" concept. But I haven't found
anything that describes an organization quite like the one I proposed. There
could be one, though, that has not been specifically described. Sounds like
a very interesting group of schools & the principles sound good in theory..

One comment, though - I looked up their list of schools. On the list was
Highland H.S. in Albuquerque, NM. I happen to know a bit about that school,
since a friend was a special ed teacher there. Highland, from her
description, was a pretty normal h.s. in a relatively poor area of the city.
Nothing unusual about it's organization. They may say that they subscribe to
the "common principles", but I don't see that it had much effect there.
Linda
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From: "kber" <kber@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: Kindergarten Reading Exit Exams


> L. Cirincione wrote:
>
> > Ken-
> > Is this the book that you were referring to?
> >         Horace's school : redesigning the American high school
> >         Sizer, Theodore R.
> > I put a hold on it at my library to check it out, but this & the others
they
> > had by him seem to refer strictly to high school.
> >
> > Or did you mean this recent book (from 11/01)? (I found it on Amazon,
but my
> > library does not carry it):
> > One Kid at a Time : Big Lessons from a Small School (Series on School
> > Reform)
> > by Eliot Levine, Ted Sizer, Elliot Washor (Afterword), Tom Peters
> >
> > Linda
> >
>
> Linda
>
> I can't find my copies to check if I was referring to Horace's School, the
> second book in the series, or Horace's Hope, the first book.  I think
there was
> something in the appendix of Horace's School.
>
> I have another suggestion, but this is not guaranteed.  The Horace books
kid of
> were the impetus towrads the development of the Coalition of Essential
Schools,
> one of the first of which was the famous Central Park East in New York
City
> orgniazed by Deb Meier.   You might try their website to see if they have
> anything in htier literature (I apolgize for not doing thisr eserach and
giving
> you the results, but I still have about 30 ppers to red and correct before
iget
> students ad 7:40 this morning).  That url is
http://www.essentialschools.org/
> ....  and they probably have a contact person there that if you dropped an
> e-mail could point you in  the right direction.
>
> My books are in stacks (not enough shelves), and the only Sizer book I
could
> find quickly was Horace's Compromise, in which the appendix to which I was
> referring definietly does NOT appear.
>
> Sorry i can't be more specific.
>
>
> Ken
>
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