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Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism
Sweating the Small Stuff InnerCity Schools and the New Paternalism Author:David Whitman The most exciting innovation in education policy in the last decade is the emergence of highly effective schools in our nations inner cities, schools where disadvantaged teens make enormous gains in academic achievement. In this book, David Whitman takes readers inside six of these secondary schools and reveals the secret to their success: they ... more »are paternalistic. The schools teach teens how to act according to traditional, middle-class values, set and enforce exacting academic standards, and closely supervise student behavior. But unlike paternalistic institutions of the past, these schools are warm, caring places, where teachers and principals form paternal-like bonds with students. Though little explored to date, the new paternalistic schools are the most promising means yet for closing the nations costly and shameful achievement gap.
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