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"Joan Barickman has run an alternative public school for disaffected kids for some twenty years, and she has come to believe that the adult world has its collective heads in the sand by not recognizing that it's the ""how"" of learning that counts if there's going to be any ""what"" for a lot of children, even those who are natively quite bright. And she believes that focusing on the how instead of the what can make students out of non-students. After some telling analysis of the major ways American schools are structured, she focuses on a number of students she's taught, past and present, who have done more than simply survive school-or leave it early- because they have become schoolwise through the approaches she outlines in stories and anecdotes. Schoolwise offers a new and needed kind of research by classroom teachers. It's a work of synthesis, dealing with the broad topic of thinking and learning from an interdisciplinary perspective. The author uses sociology, psychology, philosophy, medicine, cognitive sciences, literature, and popular culture to inform her classroom observations, but she always begins and ends with individuals. The book is about real teachers, real children, real schools, real pain, and real success."

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"Joan Barickman started full-time teaching more than thirty years ago. But even before that, in high school and college, she worked as a tutor and part-time teacher. For all those years, she's committed herself to learning how to help those students who are ""at risk"" - those who don't achieve excellence in school - a group which includes a startling 75 percent of our school population. She has taught every grade, kindergarten through twelfth. She has taught music, drama, sciences, social studies, and English, and has worked in private prep schools, alternative schools, and comprehensive high schools. For the last 15 years, she's taught in the Bedford, New York, public schools. Joan has taught hundreds of other teachers and graduate students and has written extensively about education. She was a founder of the New York State Alternative education Association and won the first New York State Alternative Educator of the Year Award. In addition, she has received fellowships from sources such as the Danforth Foundation and grants from CETA, the New York Youth-at-Risk/Community Partnerships Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a variety of other federal, state, corporate, and private sources."

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