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9781578869688

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This book offers a rare combination?a fresh perspective on student learning, a serious effort to measure success, and a practical way to inform discussions about schools as a learning environments. The authors conceptualize rigorous learning as the outcome of an environment that promotes positive youth development, not changes in course offerings or testing requirements. They champion the idea that students should be at the center of their own learning agenda and that overall success in life requires educating the whole child. This has led them to create and study schools that test an important idea ? that academic rigor comes from students establishing positive relationships with others and having opportunities to face personally relevant challenges.The Hope Study demonstrates what can happen when pioneering educators partner with researchers to go beyond their intuitive understandings to better understand what helps learners. The result is fascinating portrait of schools where studen

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Ronald J. Newell serves as the Learning Program and Evaluation Director for EdVisions Schools. Mark J. Van Ryzin is Research Assistant at the Institute for Child Development at the University of Minnesota.

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