Summary Of Horace's Compromise

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Problem Background
Theodore Sizer of Brown University founded the Coalition for Essential Schools in 1985. Presently, over 1000 elementary and secondary schools use Coalition for Essential Schools. CES is centered around challenging schools with an emphasis on personalized learning, student achievement, and effective teaching methods. Sizer first considered the type of school reform that the Coalition of Essential Schools pursues in the book Horace's Compromise (Bergeson, 2005).
The book contained Ted Sizer's thoughts on a study of high schools over a five-year period; in which he used a fictional teacher named Horace to illustrate a number of instructive examples. The mission of the program is "to create and sustain equitable, intellectually

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