A completely updated and revised edition of the acclaimed guide to strengthening schools. It features 200 pages of fresh, current case studies, essays, and frontline reports from teachers, students, parents, and administrators.

Reviews

"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized, assembly-line, industrial-age institutions that comprise too much of our school system today. Chock full of useful tools, ideas, and exercises, this book is ideal for the many teachers and parents who are intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn. For educators working to reconnect learning with real life, SCHOOLS THAT LEARN is as essential resource."
- Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND

"The idea that schools themselves can and must learn is the most important idea in education and this is the classic and indispensable guide to how that happens."
--David W. Orr, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College
"At a time when school reform has become synonymous with ill-conceived initiatives, it is refreshing to encounter a book that offers hopeful ideas, grounded in experience."
-Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York University and author "of The Life and Death of The American School System"
Acclaim for the original edition:
"Today, more than ever, all the forces within society must join together to prepare our children to meet the challenges of our rapidly changing world. Schools That Learn is an important resource for all those wanting to tackle the challenge of integrating family, school, faith community, and policymakers into one coalition on behalf of children."
--Dr. James P. Comer, Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center, Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine
"I don't know of a country that is happy with its educational system. That is because most schools are crafted for the mass production ethic of industrial society. Changing this obsolete state of affairs is the best investment that a government or community can make. This book can help; it shows how schools can reorient themselves to emphasize humanity,0