Exchanging Writing, Exchanging Cultures: Lessons in School Reform from the United States and Great Britain

Author(s): Sarah Warshauer Freedman

Our public schools are ailing—this has become something of a truism in recent years, but what to do about it is less obvious. In this book, Freedman goes beyond the usual hand wringing and number crunching to approach the issue from another direction: What, she wondered, can we learn about literacy training from Great Britain—an English-speaking country with a long tradition of concern about literacy and with similarly troubled inner-city schools? To explore this question, Freedman and her colleagues in England conducted national surveys of teachers and students and also set up a student writing exchange that matched English classes from four middle and high schools in the San Francisco Bay area with counterparts in greater London. This cross-cultural comparison not only offers concrete lessons to school reformers, policymakers, and classroom teachers about the value and effectiveness of different approaches to teaching writing, it stimulates readers to envision new possibilities for our familiar school organizations
NCTE and Harvard University Press. 220pp. Grades 6–College. 1994. ISBN 0-674-27393-1.
No. 16442
 

ISBN: 0-674-27393-1

Grade Level(s): Middle, Secondary, College

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