Norman Fruchter on the pioneering alternative high school he and colleagues built in Newark in the 1970s

July 31, 2019 00:37:45
Norman Fruchter on the pioneering alternative high school he and colleagues built in Newark in the 1970s
Ethical Schools
Norman Fruchter on the pioneering alternative high school he and colleagues built in Newark in the 1970s

Jul 31 2019 | 00:37:45

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Show Notes

We speak with Norm Fruchter, long-time educational activist and thought leader, about Independence School, an experimental high school where the ideal was that someone walking into a classroom couldn’t tell the teacher from the students. We discuss lessons learned – and perhaps forgotten – about supporting students whose original schools failed them. Among the school’s strengths were authentic, enduring relationships among teachers and students, teaching strategies that enabled illiterate students to learn to read without embarrassment, month-long internship breaks, and curriculum that referenced students’ life experiences.

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