This book examines a number of models being tried in the US to tackle disaffection. Many of public schools represent the nadir in education, where every year graduates leave high school unable to read or write - yet it is also where some of the most enlightened and radical approaches can be found on how to make schools relevant and dynamic for pupils.
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Reva Klein is the author of "Defying Disaffection: How Schools Are Winning the Hearts and Minds of Reluctant Students" and "Citizens by Right: Citizenship Education in Primary Schools". She has won awards for her writing for the "Times Educational Supplement" and is founder editor of the "International Journal on School Disaffection."
Jay Smink is the Executive Director of the National Dropout Prevention Center in Clemson, SC.
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