Books written by Deborah Meier
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Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools
During its first years as an underfunded school in a dreary office building , Parker didn't attract these pioneers with promises of laptops or a magnificent library . Rather , they were attracted by ideas : those that Ted had put forth ...
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Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools
... education officials are considering raising the passing grade for the exam. State Education Commissioner David Driscoll and Board ofEducation chairman James Peyser said the passing grade needs to be 81 MANY CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND.
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The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem
orah Meier combines essays and journal entries in an essential defense of public education. "A stirring manifesto for democratic, public education--hurled into the teeth of the times".--Joseph Feathersone, The Nation.
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The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem
Deborah Meier has for twenty years led one of the most remarkable public schools in the country, Central Park East (CPE) in East Harlem, where 90 percent of the students...
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In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an era of Testing and Standardization
In this multilayered exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and puts forward a different vision, forged in the success stories of small public schools she and her colleagues have created in Boston and New ...
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Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools
Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here.
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In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization
In this multilayered exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and puts forward a different vision, forged in the success stories of small public schools she and her colleagues have created in Boston and New ...
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Differentiated Assessment: How to Assess the Learning Potential of Every Student (Grades 6-12)
A comprehensive assessment system for working with underperforming students This book describes a comprehensive assessment system especially appropriate for multilingual and "differentiated" classrooms with large numbers of underperforming ...
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Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground
Why is play important in the lives of children? What crucial aspects of learning are being neglected in the current near-elimination of recess time in public schools? Playing for Keeps,...
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Beyond Testing: Seven Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective Than Standardized Tests
Beyond Testing describes seven forms of assessment that are more effective than standardized test results.
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These Schools Belong to You and Me: Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools
A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy In These Schools Belong to You and Me, MacArthur ...
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Will Standards Save Public Education?
Somewhere. . . there is a place of sanity where education is intense and substantive. . . . It's in that place that Deborah Meier has been working all these years.
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Teaching in Themes: An Approach to Schoolwide Learning, Creating Community, and Differentiating Instruction
As part of this exploration I led the students in a study of Earth's atmosphere, and especially one aspect of it: the ... according to some students, such as using more tape on one side than the other, so I don't think I persuaded too ...
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Keeping School: Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools
On Keeping School at Parker Nancy Faust Sizer W hen Ted and I first started our careers over fortyfive years ago , our only real problem with public schools in general was that they didn't have us as teachers .
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The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem
Teaching the lessons of New York's most famous public school, Deborah Meier provides a widely acclaimed vision for the future of public education. With a new preface reflecting on the school's continuing success.
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These Schools Belong to You and Me: Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools
STANDARDS, TESTING, AND REDEFINING SUCCESS Allen, D., ed. ... The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing. ... Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st-Century Learning.
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The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem
Teaching the lessons of New York's most famous public school, Deborah Meier provides a widely acclaimed vision for the future of public education. With a new preface reflecting on the school's continuing success.
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Beyond Testing: Seven Assessments of Students and Schools More Effective Than Standardized Tests
The authors of this timely book argue that a fundamentally complex problem—how to assess the knowledge of a child—cannot be reduced to a simple test score.