‘Change takes time’: a look at the growth and development of the Coalition of Essential Schools

Abstract

There is not a specific blueprint here for a top‐to‐bottom restructuring of the system. That's been tried and is being tried, with the result being a high degree of failure. In any case, such a blueprint or model would violate the first of the imperatives: giving room to teachers and students to work and learn in their own way (Sizer 1985a).

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Notes on contributors

Patrick J. McQuillan

Patrick J. McQuillan is an assistant professor in the School of Education, University of Colorado, Box 249, Boulder, CO 80309‐0249, USA. He was the Co‐Director of the School Ethnography Project based at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Donna E. Muncey

Donna E. Muncey is a Senior Associate with the Coalition of Essential Schools and adjunct lecturer at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.