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	About CES
		Essential schools are places of powerful student learning where all students have the chance to reach their fullest potential.
		Diverse in size, population, and programmatic emphasis, Essential schools serve students from pre-kindergarten through high school in urban, suburban, and rural communities, and they are characterized by personalization, democracy and equity, and intellectual vitality and excellence.
		The Coalition of Essential Schools has found that students who attend Essential Schools across the country are making striking academic and personal progress, documented by studies conducted by CES National staff, various Affiliate Centers, and outside researchers.
	www.essentialschools.org /pub/ces_docs/about/about.html (435 words)

	Schools
		Schools should not be comprehensive if such a claim is made at the expense of the school's central intellectual purpose.
		The school's goals should be simple: that each student master a limited number of essential skills and areas of knowledge.
		School practice should be tailor-made to meet the needs of every group or class of students.
	www.sbrsd.org /schools.htm (956 words)

	Coalition of Essential Schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) is an organization created to further a type of whole-school reform originally envisioned by founder Ted Sizer in his book, Horace's Compromise.
		Horace's Compromise consists of Sizer's reflection on a five-year Study of High Schools in which a team of investigators toured high schools of various kinds (differing demographic composition, rural and urban, public, private, and parochial), interviewed teachers, students, and administrators, and spent considerable time observing classrooms and, especially, following students through their daily routines.
		The Coalition was founded on nine "Common Principles" which were intended to codify Sizer's insights from Horace's Compromise and the views and beliefs of others in the organization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coalition_of_Essential_Schools (827 words)

	Summary: Coalition of Essential Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Coalition's philosophy of educational change is based on "Nine Common Principles of Essential Schools" developed by Sizer.
		School changes must emanate from the school site as building and schools differ and there is no magic bullet for school improvement.
		Expected Outcomes: Schools that are members of the Coalition of Essential Schools are expected to be committed to change, involve the whole school, document and assess progress and provide the funding over the years required to accomplish the significant teaching and organizational changes that reform requires.
	www.coe.wayne.edu /TSC/ces.html (549 words)

	An Educators' Guide to Schoolwide Reform
		The Coalition encourages secondary schools to maintain a ratio of 80 students to one teacher, and elementary schools to maintain a ratio of 25 students to one teacher.
		According to the developer, schools that are exploring the Coalition of Essential Schools begin by examining the Common Principles, discussing their meaning in faculty meetings, and determining whether the philosophy is consistent with the school's goals.
		However, in general, schools are evaluated on several criteria, including: agreement with the Common Principles on the part of the school faculty; commitment to reform; professional and financial support from the district; sufficient funds for staff development and planning; and a commitment to self-evaluation.
	www.aasa.org /issues_and_insights/district_organization/reform/Approach/coalofes.htm (1858 words)

	An Educators' Guide to Schoolwide Reform
		The Coalition of Essential Schools applauds the attention AIR brings to school reform through its summary of prominent and promising comprehensive school reform approaches.
		Coalition phrases, such as "critical friends school coaches," "exhibitions of mastery less is more teacher as coach," and others have become key concepts and components of many national and local reform efforts.
		Therefore, some of the best research on Coalition schools is embedded in larger studies of school reform, and it may be difficult to isolate completely the impact of CES on students.
	www.aasa.org /issues_and_insights/district_organization/Reform/Appendix/letter13.htm (1481 words)

	The Ten Common Principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Schools should not attempt to be "comprehensive" if such a claim is made at the expense of the school’s central intellectual purpose.
		Students of traditional high school age but not yet at appropriate levels of competence to enter secondary school studies will be provided intensive remedial work to assist them quickly to meet these standards.
		Incentives appropriate to the school’s particular students and teachers should be emphasized, and parents should be treated as essential collaborators.
	www.parker.org /WhoAreWe/ten_common.htm (650 words)

	Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools
		The Michigan Coalition of Essential School's roots can be found in the earliest research of Theodore Sizer and his study of America's high schools, which spanned the years 1979 - 1984.
		The goal of the Coalition was to support and facilitate the restructuring of our schools through collaboration, inquiry, thoughtfulness, and genuine commitment to the success of every learner.
		Since that time, the Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools has become a fully accredited CES regional center with a growing staff of both full and part-time professional employees.
	www.michigances.org /history.htm (441 words)

	Coalition Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Coalition of Essential Schools is a whole school reform initiative based upon the Ten Common Principles established by Ted Sizer.
		Today, the Coalition of Essential Schools is a federation of more than 750 schools serving students from kindergarten to the twelfth grade.
		The schools are diverse in size, population, program, and geographic location and serve both the public and private communities.
	www.broward.k12.fl.us /hrd/CoalitionII (295 words)

	Coalition of Essential Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The schools goals should be simple: Each student should be an expert on the basic skills, knowledge, and attitudes.
		The schools goals and rules should fit the needs of all the students, regardless of their differing abilities and skills.
		The rules practices, and the ways of teaching in school should be fair and equal for everyone.
	www.hilliard.k12.oh.us /wms/navibar-destinations/coalition.html (202 words)

	CES info
		The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) is a national network of schools and centers engaged in restructuring schools to promote better student learning and achievement.
		CES envisions a future where all American schools are places where intellectual excitement animates every child's face, where teachers work together to get better at their craft, and where all children flourish, regardless of their gender, race, or class.
		Schools interested in the Coalition begin their work by exploring the ideas promoted by the Common Principles.
	www.parker.org /ntc/ces_info.htm (383 words)

	The Ohio Coalition of Essential Schools
		The Coalition of Essential Schools is a nationally recognized school reform movement with almost two decades of experience in providing leadership for school reform.
		Ted Sizer, formerly of Harvard and Brown Universities and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools, continues to serve the Coalition in an advisory capacity.
		We believe that to change the public school system, we need to create and sustain large numbers of individual schools that fully enact CES principles - schools that can serve as models to other schools and demonstrations to the public that it is possible to re-imagine education.
	www.ohioces.org /about_us.htm (1189 words)

	Mid-Atlantic Coalition of Essential Schools, Inc.
		The Mid-Atlantic Coalition of Essential Schools, Inc. (MACES) is a dynamic organization dedicated to helping students to achieve their full potential and to assist schools to become centers of excellence.
		MACES is one of nineteen regional centers of the National Coalition of Essential Schools, a school reform network of nearly 1000 schools founded by Theodore Sizer at Brown University in 1984.
		It is clear that making the changes necessary to fulfill the vision of education articulated by the Common Principles must happen school by school, teacher by teacher, student by student, parent by parent, as the result of deeply held and well understood convictions.
	www.maces.org /about.html (669 words)

	Welcome to EdSpeak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) established 10 Common Principles meant to serve as a guide for all schools in the process of re-imagining education.
		Although CES schools are all guided by the same Common Principles, each has a responsibility to shape its reform in a way that meets the needs of its students, faculty and community members.
		Many of the schools showed progress in closing the gap between the number of their students passing the tests and the state average (schools in the study started out with students who typically did not test well).
	www.schoolworkslab.org /models.php?modelid=1 (935 words)

	Model Details
		All three schools studied showed high levels of implementation of CES and high levels of achievement and engagement over multiple indicators and multiple years (between 1999 and 2003) as compared to the other Boston public high schools.
		Implementation levels for all the schools under study are discussed in detail, and various indicators of engagement (depending on the public data) are reported (e.g., attendance, dropout rates).
		In general, CES schools are in the top half of their respective districts or comparable schools from the state in these indicators and in student achievement.
	www.nwrel.org /scpd/catalog/ModelDetails.asp?ModelID=51 (1875 words)

	95-044 (CES Fall Forum)
		Coalition of Essential Schools to be run and led by members
		Schools in the CES network have increased the number of their students going on to higher education, lowered absenteeism, raised attendance and reduced discipline problems.
		The Coalition of Essential Schools will continue to have close ties with the recently organized Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, though it will explore the possibility of becoming an independent organization.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1995-96/95-044.html (821 words)

	History of Coalition of Essential Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The typical American high school, while perhaps a friendly enough place, promoted apathy and intellectual lethargy; the lesson it succeeded in teaching best, perhaps, was that becoming educated is deadly dull.
		In 1984, a group of twelve schools in seven states agreed to redesign themselves on the basis of Sizer's ideas and to form the Coalition.
		After a decade, with hundreds of affiliated schools around the country, the national office of CES helped to arrange the founding of CES regional centers around the country.
	www.edgateway.net /lpt/ces_docs/161 (459 words)

	Chesapeake Coaliton of Essential Schools: Comprehensive School Reform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Comprehensive School Reform and the Chesapeake Coalition of Essential Schools
		Coalition schools report fewer incidents of violence and higher rates of community engagement.
		The Chesapeake Coalition of Essential Schools is a regional center of the National Coalition of Essential Schools supporting schools in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
	www.chesapeakeces.org /csr.htm (2090 words)

	Model Schools - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
		The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) is a network of K-12 schools throughout the United States that seeks to enact the educational principals that emerged from A Study of American High Schools and were articulated by Theodore Sizer in Horace’s Compromise.
		Some students in CES schools, for example, develop their understanding of scientific and mathematical processes like measurement, data collection, dimension, and ecology by examining the amount of precipitation that enters a local watershed and investigating variable precipitation rates’ effects on the local ecosystem.
		A 2001 CES analysis of data from 41 schools found that CES schools had a greater percentage of graduates attending college than traditional schools (84 percent vs. 63 percent), and larger percentages of African-American (82 percent) and Latino (87 percent) graduates going on to higher education.
	www.gatesfoundation.org /UnitedStates/Education/TransformingHighSchools/Schools/ModelSchools/CES.htm (641 words)

	The Merrow Report- The Fifty Million Dollar Gamble (reforms)
		The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) at Brown University is a national network of nearly 800 schools, primarily secondary.
		The Accelerated Schools Project is a comprehensive approach to school change designed to bring all students -- including those most at risk of educational failure because of poverty, limited English, and difficult family conditions -- into the educational mainstream in elementary schools and to build on those gains at subsequent levels.
		Center for Leadership in School Reform (CLSR) is grounded in the belief that restructuring is necessary so that schools are organized around 1) the needs of students and 2) the work students are expected to do, so that families and communities provide children with the support necessary to ensure success.
	www.pbs.org /merrow/tv/gamble/reforms.html (921 words)

	Coalition Center for Essential School Reform - Antioch Center for School Renewal - Antioch University New England
		A Center of the Coalition of Essential Schools
		The Coalition Center works with teachers, administrators, parents, policy-makers, and community leaders to explore what they want from their schools.
		Building on the Ten Common Principles of the Coalition of Essential Schools, the Coalition Center offers a wide range of programs and support services for all school communities engaged in school improvement efforts.
	www.antiochne.edu /acsr/ces (364 words)

	Thomas B. Fordham Institute - Better By Design? A Consumer's Guide to Schoolwide Reform
		The Coalition of Essential Schools is the institutional expression of the work of Theodore Sizer, the former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and probably the leading progressive thinker and reformer of our time.
		And so the Essential School is divided into several broad levels, and students pass from one to the next whenever they demonstrate mastery with their exhibitions.
		The culture of the Essential School requires a deep sense of professionalism among teachers, who are entrusted with the responsibility to construct the curriculum and the exhibitions, and who are given additional time to work with one another.
	www.edexcellence.net /institute/publication/publication.cfm?id=21&pubsubid=157 (2481 words)

	Announcements - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
		High schools to be chosen as CES mentor schools are small (typically serving fewer than 400 students) and feature highly personalized learning environments that nurture each student’s intellectual passions.
		These schools serve large percentages of students who, in other circumstances, would be considered “at risk,” but are graduating high school and entering college at extremely high rates.
		The Coalition of Essential Schools, founded in 1984 by Theodore Sizer, is an education reform organization dedicated to transforming American public education so that every child in every neighborhood, regardless of race or class, attends a small, intellectually challenging, personalized school.
	www.gatesfoundation.org /UnitedStates/Education/TransformingHighSchools/Announcements/Announce-030916.htm (767 words)

	Change Takes Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For example, findings suggest that Essential Schools are encountering difficulties moving their ideas from the realm of discussion and limited experimentation in individual classrooms or in pilot projects to the arena of schoolwide change (Muncey and McQuillan 1991 a, b, McQuillan and Muncey 1991).
		The Coalition of Essential Schools was founded in 1984 by Theodore R. Sizer, former Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and former headmaster at Phillips Academy, Andover Massachusetts.
		While at other schools teachers often resisted efforts to implement change solely on the basis of their opposition to the principal and his or her close association with this effort, these principals have been able to persuade teachers to participate in the reforms.
	www.ilt.columbia.edu /Publications/papers/McQuillan.html (5738 words)

	Center for Essential School Reform
		Currently, 14 Ohio schools are fully affirmed member schools; 17 additional schools are in some phase of the membership process, and many more are using the Coalition philosophy and its Ten Common Principles as a framework for their work.
		Under this “umbrella,” the Center still retains the Ohio Coalition of Essential Schools with its services to member and affiliate schools and continues to be governed by its own Board of Trustees.
		More recently, the Ohio Center for Essential School Reform has entered an exciting partnership with the Ohio State University, Battelle, and the Educational Council to open a small and intellectually vibrant learning community open to students in Franklin County.
	www.ohioces.org /start.htm (420 words)

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