The Lives of Children: The Story of the First Street School

By: George Dennison

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Synopsis: There is no need to add to the criticism of our public schools. The critique is extensive and can hardly be improved on. The processes of learning and teaching, too, have been exhaustively studied. One thinks the books of Paul Goodman, John Holt, Greene and yan Nat Hentoff, James Herndon, Jonathan Kozol,Herbert Kohl; and of such researches as those of lBruner and Piaget; and of Joseph Featherstone's important Report. The question now is what to do. In the pages that follow, I would like to describe one unfamiliar approach to the problems which by now have become familiar. And since the crisis of the schools consists in reality of a great many ises in the lives of children, I shall try to make the children of the First Street School the real subject of this book.