Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School By Ted Sizer. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1984

flow-chart format for reports of educational research. Instead, abstracting typical characteristic of teachers, schools, and students from his welldocumented investigation, he creates characters, places, and events as engaging as any found in a Mark Twain tale. Substituting readable prose for the burdensome jargon of most writing on education, he evokes the response, &dquo;Yes, I know that teacher. I’ve been in the classroom, that school. I recognize those kids.&dquo;