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The Coalition of Essential Schools is a US organization created to further a type of whole-school reform originally envisioned by founder Ted Sizer in his book, Horace's Compromise. The group began in 1984 with twelve schools and grew to 600 members.

In 2014 it merged with the Forum for Education and operated from headquarters in Portland, Maine. The organization's executive board voted in December 2016 to cease the organization’s operations.

References

1. Jill Davidson (2010). "Coalition of Essential Schools". In Thomas C. Hunt; et al. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent. Sage. pp. 170–172. ISBN 978-1-4522-6573-5.
2. "Forum Merges with Coalition of Essential Schools". Ohio: Forum for Education and Democracy. January 13, 2014.
3. Farewell letter

Further reading

• Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center (2006), "Narratives: Coalition of Essential Schools", CSRQ Center Report on Middle and High School Comprehensive School Reform Models, Washington DC: American Institutes for Research, pp. 67–74 + appendix

• Coalition of Essential Schools
• Alternative schools in the United States
• Democratic education
• Education reform in the United States
• United States schools associations
• 1984 establishments in the United States