Description: A fascinating study of innovation and reform in Appalachia, Stack's book investigates how this project's community model may offer insights into the challenges facing schools today.
Brief description: Sam F. Stack Jr. is professor of social and cultural foundations at West Virginia University. He is the author of Elsie Ripley Clapp (1879-1965): Her Life and the Community School and coauthor of Teachers, Leaders, and Schools: Essays by John Dewey, which won the 2012 American Educational Studies Critics Choice Award.
Review Quotes:
"It is a much-needed study of progressive education on the local level in a rural, poor region." -- The Journal of Southern History