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One Kid At A Time: Big Lessons From A Small School

reviewed by Nicole E. Holland � 2003

Title: One Kid At A Time: Big Lessons From A Small School
Author(s): Eliot Levine
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 0807741531, Pages: 170, Year: 2002
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One Kid At A Time is a testimony of what can be accomplished when a small, personalized learning community challenges youth and adults to think beyond the boundaries of academic standardization and consider the liberating world of authentic, engaging, and limitless learning opportunities.� Elliot Levine offers an account of the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (the Met), a small high school in Providence, Rhode Island where each student is connected with a team of adults who turn student interests into a range of learning opportunities.� Levine positions the Met as a model for education reform and documents the school�s progressive approach to learning where educational objectives are used to create individualized student learning plans and to evaluate students� academic and social development.� Levine�s connection with, and affection for, the Met exudes throughout the text as he documents the elaborate efforts of adults to structure a range of meaningful educational opportunities that may begin in the school, but have the potential to take students around the world.� And... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 105 Number 1, 2003, p. 154-157
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 10924, Date Accessed: 10/18/2018 5:09:04 PM

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Nicole Holland University of Chicago E-mail Author NICOLE HOLLAND is a Spencer Fellow on Urban Education Reform at the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include educational equity, urban education, and school reform with a particular concern for the conditions that support educational success for disadvantaged populations.

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