The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business

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What is the purpose of education? What kind of people do we want our children to grow up to be? How can we design schools so that students will acquire the skills they′ll need to live fulfilled and productive lives?

Foreword: On Being Bold by Deborah Meier

Preface

Acknowledgments

Opening Thought

The Real Goals of Education

Kids, Schools, and the Bigger Picture

About the authors

Dennis Littky is director and cofounder of the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (“The Met”), in Providence, Rhode Island, and codirector and cofounder of The Big Picture Company, a non-profit education reform organization that creates and supports small, personalized, public high schools that work in tandem with their communities.

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Samantha Grabelle is Dennis Littky's assistant at The Big Picture Company and The Met. She earned a B.A. with honors in multicultural education from Brown University and a master's degree in social work with a concentration in community organizing from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, where she was named the Connecticut National Association of Social Workers' Social Work Student of the Year.