Charter Advocacy

Describes the creation of and development of learning communities that are changing the conversation about what schools can be and do.

Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education_including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches_have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning. Assessing What Really Matters in Schools gives hope to innovative and progressive schools, to new and different accountability systems, while changing the conversation from an achievement discourse to a human development discourse.

Howard Gardner, author of Five Minds for the Future and Multiple Intelligences:
“In this persuasive book, Wagner delineates what skills are needed in a globalized era, why most American schools can’t nurture them, and how today’s schools could be transformed to cultivate tomorrow’s skills.”

Explains the theory and practice behind making a project-based system work.