San Antonio College Library

A realistic drama that takes the viewer inside an American high school on one single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. It observes the comings and goings of its characters from a safe distance. The experiences of each student range from friendly and innocent to traumatic and deeply disturbing.

High Schools That Work is the nation's first large-scale effort to unite educational stakeholders at all levels with the objective of re-engaging what some have called the forgotten majority in U.S. high schools. In this interview, founding director Gene Bottoms, Ed. D., talks with Hedrick Smith about the HSTW program in general and Corbin High School, Kentucky-an exemplary case study-in particular. "If you can help youngsters to begin to connect...

The authors examine a broad range of Catholic high schools to determine whether or not students are better educated in these schools than they are in public schools. They find that the Catholic schools do have an independent effect on achievement, especially in reducing disparities between disadvantaged and privileged students. The Catholic school of today, they show, is informed by a vision, similar to that of John Dewey, of the school as a community...

The high school reunion occurs throughout the United States and cuts across differences in age, locality, and ethnicity. Drawing on candid personal narratives derived from reunions ranging from the fifth to the fiftieth, this pathbreaking study demonstrates, however, that for many Americans the high school reunion is a rich and often poignant experience. The author examines the American high school reunion as a dramatic scene in the construction...

When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.

Describes what goes on in a large metropolitan high school in the 1960s when a dedicated teacher's ideals run against the educational bureaucracy, the lack of communication, etc.

A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.

In this coming of age drama from Italy, Caterina (Alice Teghil) moves from a provincial seaside town to politically-charged, class-conscious Rome. As her parent's marriage disintegrates in the face of her father's social frustrations, Caterina finds comfort in her extended family, and hope for the future in a budding romance. Starring Alice Teghil, Sergio Castellitto and Margherita Buy.

Explores the impact of policing and punitive disciplinary policies on the students and their educational experience. From publisher description.

"The late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school systemOur current high schools are ill-designed and inefficient. We have inherited a program of studies that in its overall structure has not changed in over a century. The question is What's next? Theodore Sizer, the founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools, was a passionate advocate for the American school system. In this, his last book, he offers a vision of what a...