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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9?12 and postgraduates, located on 619 acres (2.51 km2) in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, 50 miles (80 km) north of Boston.Early alumni include US Senator Daniel Webster (1796); US President Franklin Pierce (1820); Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Lincoln (1860); Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. (1870), Richard and Francis Cleveland;[4] "grandfather of football" Amos Alonzo Stagg (1880); and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington (1889). John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace and Peace Breaks Out, was a 1945 graduate; both novels are set at the fictional Devon School, a reference to PEA. Exeter students and alumni call themselves "Exonians?. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1919Original Publisher: Evans printing companySubjects: EducationEducation / GeneralEducation / HistoryEducation / Philosophy ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Publication date: 1878; Subjects: Education; Public schools; ... Read more

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Title: Remembered Events Concerning the Life and Services of Benjamin Brown Thompson, as a Teacher of Common Schoolsin New Hampshire and MassachusettsFrom 1827 to 1875. With Brief Notices of Persons, and Sketches of Places Where He Has TaughtPublisher: Exeter, N. H., Wingate ... Read more

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Title: Balancing mission to market: becoming Southern New Hampshire University *.(Practice)
Author: Elisabeth J. Noyes
Publication: Peer Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Association of American Colleges and Universities
Volume: 6Issue: 2Page: 19(3)

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Didn't read the book - lived it
So, I didn't read this book.I was fortunate enough to have had Dennis Littky as my principal in 1972-1975, prior to the time period of the story in this book."Doc" was probably the most amazing educator that I've ever come across, and both of my parents are educators.What he did that was so amazing is to bring life into school!It was a hands-on approach to learning, and a lust for learning, that I can tell you is most rare!

So, I will be buying this book because I want to re-live those experiences, and learn from Doc all over again!

How do progressive educational ideas work in practice?
How previously successful principal Littky retired to a cabin in the Appalachian mountains and was persuaded to help revitalize failing Thayer High School, Winchester, N-H. He did well, but not everyone in town was happy; then the drama started. A fascinating account of one man trying to put into practice many of Ted Sizer's progressive ideas (see Horace's Compromise, Horace's School and Horace's Hope) and the resistance he ran into.

I couldn't put it down. Littky decided to take the challenge and try to put his ideas into practice. He was accused by some of using the school and its students as guinea-pigs for his "grand experiment" in psychological manipulation, his grab for power. Many disagreed with his ideas and his vision; some were persuaded, some were not, even after seeing what he had done with the school. People disagreed with what the "evidence" showed, or even what it was!

Susan Kammeraad-Campbell does a great job of taking us behind the scenes and observing how Littky went about convincing both turned-off students and cynical staff members to stay on, tune in and get involved. The task was monumental, and many had failed before him. Did Littky succeed? Many would say he did, but not all would agree.

Littky seems to have a gift for making learning and teaching fun. But it's not all about pedagogy or classroom techniques: it's also about building the right environment, both physically and emotionally. How does one set about practically breaking down the artificial walls erected between school "subjects"? How does one persuade teachers to go along with this plan and actually make it work? How does one set standards that require meaningful learning, and not just measure the amount of hours spent in school? And how does one persuade teachers and parents to support this venture? Well, here's the story of how Littky set about it. It also tells what happened when people disagreed with what he was doing, who disagreed with his "liberal ideas", people both in and out of the school. The story is an excellent reminder of just how much cooperation is required to make a school a success.

Although the book is obviously sympathetic to Littky, Susan Kammeraad-Campbell does try to get into the heads of those who opposed him. However, it seems she was not able to spend as much time with them or persuade them to talk to her to the extent that Littky and his supporters were, and they don't come out of the story very well. Campbell tries to answer the question, can a successful school story like Thayer's sustain itself after Littky leaves? Or is it always a matter of personalities? The afterwords by Campbell and by Littky himself try to answer these questions, but inevitably it seems Littky's personality was a powerful and vital ingredient in the mix.

As a postscript, here's a quote from Sizer's book "Horace's Hope": "During 1983, while I was writing Horace's Compromise, I accepted a number of speaking engagements with school people to test my ideas and the directions in which they might lead me. At the conclusion of one such gathering in Massachusetts, I was confronted by a smiling, balding, red-bearded, plaid-shirt-wearing character who bluntly said, 'You talk about it. We do it. You better get your butt up to my school.' He was Dennis Littky. I went to his school..." Thayer Junior/Senior High School was the first to join Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools. ... Read more