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Lessons from privilege : the American prep school tradition
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Lessons from privilege : the American prep school tradition

Author: Arthur G Powell
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
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In this book, a renowned historian of education searches out the lessons that private schooling might offer public education as cries for school reform grow louder. Arthur Powell uses the experience of private education to put the whole schooling enterprise in fresh perspective. He shows how the sense of schools as special communities can help instill passion and commitment in teachers, administrators, and students
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Powell, Arthur G., 1937-
Lessons from privilege.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)605750402
Online version:
Powell, Arthur G., 1937-
Lessons from privilege.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)608850091
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur G Powell
ISBN: 0674525493 9780674525498
OCLC Number: 34798042
Description: x, 293 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Sam's Comment and the Prep School Tradition --
I. Community. 1. The Vulnerability of Educational Communities. 2. The Family School. 3. Governing Independent Communities. 4. Diversity and Community --
II. Standards. 5. Student Incentives and the College Board System. 6. The Collision of Standards and Meritocracy. 7. The Challenge of Average College-Bound Students --
III. Personalization. 8. The Power of Personal Attention. 9. The Role of the Good Teacher --
Conclusion: Lessons from Privilege.
Responsibility: Arthur G. Powell.

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In this book, a renowned historian of education searches out the lessons that private schooling might offer public education as cries for school reform grow louder. Arthur Powell uses the experience of private education to put the whole schooling enterprise in fresh perspective. He shows how the sense of schools as special communities can help instill passion and commitment in teachers, administrators, and students alike - and how passion and commitment are absolutely.

necessary for educational success. The power of economic resources, invested fully in schools, also becomes pointedly clear here, as does the value of incentives for teachers and students.

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