By James P. Comer, Michael Ben-Avie, Norris M. Haynes, Edward T. Joyner
For 3 many years and in approximately six hundred institution groups, the Yale college improvement Program's "whole village" process has been reworking faculties into areas the place scholars examine, enhance, and thrive. This quantity offers specifics of the SDP holistic version and plan in motion.
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Joyner, and Norris M. Haynes About the Authors 169 Index 177 Page xi Foreword The National Commission on Children, chaired by Senator John D. Rockefeller in 1991, called for a series of fundamental reforms in the curriculum, organization, and financing of schools as well as the training and treatment of teachers, the role of principals, and the quality of school environment. The Commission's recommendations were based on an extensive review of research assessing the state of American education, site visits to School Development Program (SDP) schools, and discussions with Dr.
As we were planning our long-term collaboration, encouraged and supported by the Ford Foundation, we were aware that in the United States in the 1960s there was the impulse for a quantum jump in education and in democratizing our society (p. xiv). The SDP grew out of James Comer's clinical talent for quiet observation, attentive listening, and respectful collaboration. With the patience of a dynamically oriented therapist, he has developed relationships with educators and joined with them in their work and aspirations.
4. Community and schoolUnited States. 5. Educational evaluation United States. 6. TeachersTraining ofUnited States. 7. School environmentUnited States. 8. Education, UrbanUnited States. 9. Comer, James P. I. Comer, James P. 973dc20 96-2130 ISBN 0-8077-3539-6 (paper) ISBN 0-8077-3540-X (cloth) Printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK to the loving memory of Mrs. Shirley Comer, our spiritual mother and friend.
