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| Author | Deborah Meier |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Education |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
Publication date | 2002 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 208 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-8070-3142-1 |
In Schools We Trust is a book written by Deborah Meier and published on August 1, 2002. Meier uses her experiences as the founding principal of the Mission Hill School in Boston, and previous experiences leading the Central Park East schools in New York, to illustrate her vision for school reform in America. The book is broken down into three sections that focus first on the importance of building trust among the various constituencies in schools, then the challenge or threat that high-stakes standardized testing presents to building trust in schools, and finally, a broader vision for how particular systemic and policy changes could be made to increase the likelihood that schools build the trust that is necessary for schools to be effective.