Acknowledgments vii Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching xiv Preface xv The Vision of the Basic School xxi Prologue: A New Beginning 3 I The School as Community. A Shared Vision 15 Teachers as Leaders 31 Parents as Partners 47 II A Curriculum with Coherence. The Centrality of Language 65 The Core Commonalities 81 Measuring Results 103 III A Climate for Learning. Patterns to Fit Purpose 119 Resources to Enrich 137 Services for Children 153 IV A Commitment to Character. The Core Virtues 173 Living with Purpose 187 Appendix A Further Acknowledgments 197 Appendix B Technical Notes 203 Notes 209 Index 247
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