Sizer’s Recommendations for High School Reform

· Small schools or small, fully autonomous units withing large buildings.

· Clustering of teachers in core subjects to enable teachers to work together and to know the same students. This would also enable subject integration.

· Reduce the number of students that a teacher has to get to know to half of the typical 120 e.g. through block scheduling.

· Pulic exhibitions, portfolios and other forms of demanding “authentic assessment.”

· Expectation that all teachers have concern for the full academic program for every student.

Coalition of Essential Schools. Go to “Affiliation” to see list of schools by State.