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Gold, Elizabeth. Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity: One Season in a Progressive School.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Sept. 2003. 336p. Putnam/Tarcher, $24.95 (1-58542-244-4). 373.747.
In 2000, the author took a job as a ninth-grade teacher at the School of the New Millennium, in Queens. Because students had scored so low on tests in the 1990s, the New York City Board of Education decided to give alternative methods a try; hence the establishment of something called a "New Vision" school--less hierarchical, more inclusive. But, as Gold points out, the plan was doomed to failure: whereas educators tend to swing between promoting self-esteem, on the one hand, and test scores, on the other, the School of the New ...
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