In schools we trust : what kind of schooling nourishes democracy? [sound recording] / Deborah Meier.

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In schools we trust : what kind of schooling nourishes democracy? [sound recording] / Deborah Meier.

A lecture featuring Deborah Meier, Learning Theorist, founder and Principal of the Mission Hill School in Boston; and Founder of the nationally recognized Central Park East Schools in NYC. This is the sixteenth in a series of lectures honoring the memory of Cynthia Longfellow '72, Harvard Ed.D. '79, who devoted her professional life to bettering the lives of young children. [Description from the Sarah Lawrence College Weekly Calendar for Nov. 4 - Nov. 10, 2002].

1 sound cassette : analog.

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Education reformer (Deborah Meier (1931-) is frequently credited with founding the modern small scholls movement in the United STates. After attending Antioch College and the University of Chicago, Meier began her career in education in 1963 as a kindergarten teacher in Chicago. In 1966 she returned to New York City, where she taught at PS 144 and was involved in open-corridor class experiments. In 1974, Meier founded an alternative elementary school in East Harlem called Central Park East. In 1...