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One Kid At A Time: Big Lessons From A Small Schoolreviewed 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 Search for book at Amazon.com 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.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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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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