"The melding of reform approaches by the Coalition of Essential Schools and of the 'school-to-work' movement has been inevitable as well as sensible. In Schooling for the Real World, Adria Steinberg, Kathleen Cushman, and Robert Riordan outline how these reform initiatives have effectively coiled together and put their collective experience into an accessible and usable form. Given its complexity, the practical reshaping of America's high schools will surely be a messy business. The authors bring some order from their experience and thereby provide all of us a big boost ahead." (Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools)

"Schooling for the Real World offers many practical ways for teachers and schools to provide young people a genuine education that gives them experience in the world. Such experience adds considerable value to what is studied in school and helps young people see themselves as citizens of their places, persons who are highly valued for their seriousness of purpose and hard work by adults in their communities." (Vito Perrone, director of Programs in Teaching, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

"Schooling for the Real World provides a series of snapshots demonstrating the progress of schools towards the genuine integration of schooling, the work place and the larger community. It explores the myriad dimensions of program, curriculum, standards, assessment, culture, staffing, and support--all of which a school must consider seriously as it attempts to commit to new perspectives on teaching, learning, and the larger purposes of education for the twenty-first century." (Paula Evans, principal, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Massachusetts, and former director of professional development, Annenberg Institute for School Reform)

"Thought-provoking and practical, Schooling for the Real World calls upon educators to rethink the relationship between school and other institutions in society. I highly recommAnd it!" (Sheila Jordan, superintendent, Alameda County Office of Education, California)