The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

 

As part of its mission to disseminate scholarly information, in 1810 the Academy commenced publications on all aspects of the sciences, arts, and humanities. It has three series. Memoirs are monographs or booklength publications. Transactions are essays in history, economics, mathematics, archeology, languages, literature, and the natural sciences, and most recently, articles of an interdisciplinary nature. The third series, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, is the definitive reference source in this field. First published in 1916, a modern and expanded version commenced in 1967 and is now in its eleventh volume.

The Academy welcomes the submission of scholarly manuscripts for possible publication. Such material may be sent to the Publications Committee.

 

 

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Growing A School:
A Battle for Excellence

 
Photo by Douglas Nygren

Author:
 Margot Kohorn,
Research Affiliate Child Study Center
Yale University

    Growing a School is a 25-year historical account of the development of the Follow Through Program, a school reform project started in 1968 in New Haven CT. It is the story of how a progressive philosophy, a traditionally trained leader, and a wide range of student needs combined to be- come something entirely new and effective for New Haven school students.

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  Margot Kohorn's 25-year historical account of Growing a School: A Battle for Excellence, documents all the details of the development of a teacher, parent and child empowered environment starting in 1968 in New Haven, Conn., at the time when lower income schools, families and their communities were struggling for survival. This project's leadership included the wisdom of Dr. Albert Solnit, chairman of the Yale Child Study Center, the miraculous chemistry of the wise, dynamic and visionary leadership of the Principal, Audrey Tiani, the charismatic and forceful parent, Maceo Patton, and the sensitivity and brilliance of Margot Kohorn, the newly appointed psychologist who was the weaver and supporter of ideas in the Follow Through Program. Credit and support of this innovative project also goes to the methodology and philosophy of the Bank Street model and the Head Start Program developed by Drs. Edward Zigler and Julius Richmond.
This is a most exciting book and the project predates the success of charter schools, for example, the Harlem Children's Zone in New York and the Amistad Academy in New Haven.

Dr. Phyllis M. Cohen Yale University Child Study Center

As a parent for over 10 years at what eventually became West Hills Follow Through, it is encouraging to know that its history will not be forgotten. Margot Kohorn's Growing A School charts the work of a group of dedicated educators that formed a community where learning and joy happened on a daily basis. This story of how a progressive philosophy, a traditionally trained leader, and a wide range of student needs combined to become something entirely new and effective for New Haven students is important reading for anyone who continues to press for school improvement.

Jonathan Gillette
Director of Teacher Preparation
and Education Studies Program, Yale University
Lecturer, Yale Child Study Center

Vol. 62 of the Transactions of The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
(2010) ISBN 978-1-878508-30-0 119 pages $20.00 paper

© 2009 by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Published by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences,
P.O. Box 208211, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8211.

 

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Living With Stalin's Ghost
by Bruce C. Daniels - a new understanding of post-Communist Russia

 

Part political commentary, part journalism, part comparative history,
and part an observant friend, this memoir will entertain readers
and give them a new understanding of post-Communist Russia.

Bruce C. Daniels is the Gilbert M. Denman Endowed Professor
of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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Published by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences,
P.O. Box 208211, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8211.

 

 A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500
Volume 11

 

The definitive research tool used by beginning students as well as specialists in the field of Middle English. In each volume, eminent scholars have produced summaries of the contents of each Middle English text, followed by succinct, critical evaluations and an exhaustive bibliography, including full information on manuscript and early print sources. The series is an invaluable addition to the medieval scholar's private library as well as to every academic library collection.

Latest volume in the series now available!

Volume 11: Middle English Sermons and Homilies, and The Lyrics of MS Harley 2253. Peter G. Beidler, editor (2005) 392 pp. ISBN 1-878508-26-1 Cloth $59.95 (Academy Member's price $48.00)
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The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

VOICES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC
Connecticut Towns 1800-1832
Volume I: What They Said
Volume II: What We Think
CHRISTOPHER P. BICKFORD and HOWARD R. LAMAR, Editors 
 CAROLYN C. COOPER and SANDRA L. RUX, Associate Editors

 

Now available for shipping!

A unique two-volume source book for Connecticut history.

 

 


This publication contains fresh and vivid material,
and brings Connecticut's past alive!

"Bookbinders' Guild of New York 2004 Award
for Scholarly/Reference Book Series"

 

 

Funded with grants from the Connecticut Humanities Council and private donations.

 

In the first decades after winning independence from Great Britain, Americans sought to describe their new republic both to themselves and to others. To gather information for that effort, the newly chartered Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences sent a questionnaire to the state's 107 towns in 1800.

   Here are the town's responses and interpretations of them by present-day essayists.

 

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Volume I Table of Contents

 

 

Volume II Table of Contents

 

 

Editors' Biographies

 

 

Essayists' Biographies

 

Volume I: What They Said ISBN 1-878508-24-5
493 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95
Volume II: What We Think ISBN 1-878508-25-3
338 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95

 

 

 

 

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As part of its mission to disseminate scholarly information, in 1810 the Academy commenced publications on all aspects of the sciences, arts, and humanities. It has three series. Memoirs are monographs or booklength publications. Transactions are essays in history, economics, mathematics, archeology, languages, literature, and the natural sciences, and most recently, articles of an interdisciplinary nature. The third series, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, is the definitive reference source in this field. First published in 1916, a modern and expanded version commenced in 1967 and is now in its eleventh volume.

The Academy welcomes the submission of scholarly manuscripts for possible publication. Such material may be sent to the Publications Committee.