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Publication Date: 1987
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The Coalition of Essential Schools: A Report from the Field.
Chion-Kenney, Linda
American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, v11 n4 p18-27,47-48 Win 1987
The Coalition of Essential Schools promotes the following principles: (1) personalized instruction; (2) student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach; (3) focus on adolescents; (4) focus on essential skills and knowledge; (5) teachers as generalists; (6) diploma by exhibition of mastery; (7) goals for all students; (8) tone of expectation, trust, and decency; and (9) controlled student-teacher and student-cost ratios. (BJV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Freedom, Adolescents, Creative Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Mastery Learning, Productive Thinking, Teacher Student Ratio, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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