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Quoted & NotedWashington Post columnist looks at a TC Press book featuring Comer and Levin
Five Great Educators who Make a Difference
If you were assembling the leading
American thinkers and writers about education, you would have to include these
five," writes Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews. He's talking about
TC Trustee James Comer, creator of the school and systemwide intervention
known as the Comer Process; TC education economist Henry Levin,
creator of the Accelerated Schools reform program; Deborah Meier, leader of the
small school revolution, Theodore Sizer, founder of the Coalition of Essential
Schools; and John Goodlad, author of A Place Called School and founder of the
League of Small Democratic Schools. Essays by the five make up Those Who Dared:
Five Visionaries Who Changed American Education, a new volume that will be
released by Teachers College Press in November.
Published Friday, Oct. 17, 2008