Thomas W Toch

High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Education

The basic blueprint of American high schools hasn't changed in a century, and we are paying a heavy price. Anonymous, enormous, and resistant to change, huge American high schools are incapable of educating all children to high levels today, as dropout rates and remedial courses in college make incr...

The American School Board Journal (July 1991) (Volume 178 No. 7)

In this issue: All Aboard the Engine of Reform by Donna Harrington-Lucker; Public Schools of Choice by Thomas Toch; The Centennial Essay - T Boone Pickens; Choosing a School Chief by Francis W. Matika; Self-Esteem Sense and Nonsense by Susan Black; A Policymaker's Checklist by Richard S. Funk, and ...

In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation's Schools, Why It's Failing, and What Should Be Done

In the Name of Excellence is the first in-depth report card on the nation's vast drive during the past decade to reform its troubled public schools. Written by Thomas Toch, one of America's leading educational journalists, it offers an informative, revealing, and provocative commentary on a topic e...

In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation's Schools, Why It's Failing, and What Should Be Done by Toch, Thomas (October 29, 1992) Paperback

In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation's Schools, Why It's Failing, and What Should Be Done by Toch Thomas (1992-10-29) Paperback

In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation's Schools, Why It's Failing, and What Should Be Done

In the Name of Excellence : The Struggle to Reform the Nation's Schools, Why It's Failing, and What Should Be Done

In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation's Schools, Why It's Failing, and What Should Be Done