Volume 19, No.4

Summer 2005

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Resources 19.4

By Bill Bigelow, Linda Christensen, Deborah Menkart, and Bob Peterson

Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.

Short Stuff 19.4

Harlem Teen Detained A female 16-year-old Guinean student at Heritage High School in East Harlem was detained for six weeks, along with a female Bangladeshi teen from Queens, based on […]

Strange Stuff 19.4

Public Schools Killed Terri Schiavo? Marshall Fritz, president of the Fresno-based Alliance for the Separation of School and State, argues public schools have educated the rights and wrongs completely out […]

Student Voices 19.4

Students Share Perspectives on Their Small School

Students Share Perspectives on Their Small School

Good Stuff 19.4

By Herbert Kohl

My three children went to a small, rural high school. Despite the fact that it had only 168 students, it was terrible. For years we fought, along with many other […]

Editorial: The Small School Express

By the Editors of Rethinking Schools

If we ignore race and money inequities, small school reform won’t help anything meaningful take root.

Not in Our Name

Reclaiming the democratic vision of small school reform

By Michelle Fine

Reclaiming the democratic vision of small school reform.

Standardizing Small

How testing and top-down reform can undermine small schools

By Ann Cook and Phyllis Tashlik

How testing and top-down reform can undermine small schools.

An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates

By Michael Charney

Thanks for helping start Success Tech Academy in Cleveland, Charney says, but tell state leaders they’re going to have to fund these ideas too or your money won’t be well-spent.

Small Schools Doubletalk

Small schools reform is often accompanied by familiar buzzwords that can mean different things to different people (sometimes called stakeholders”).”

Creating Democratic Schools

A democratic school culture is the best professional development

By Deborah Meier

A democratic school culture is the best professional development.

A Little School in a Little Chinatown

By Debbie Wei

One of the founders of a folk arts-based school slated to open in Philadelphia this fall hopes small schools can create possibilities for reclaiming communities.

When Small Is Beautiful

An interview with Héctor Calderón by Catherine Capellaro

By Catherine Capellaro

The principal of Brooklyn’s El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice shows how art can connect students with their communities.

Tackling Tracking

A teacher finds that small school reform presents opportunities to teach about tracking and inequality

By Ian McFeat

A teacher finds that small school reform presents opportunities to teach about tracking and inequality.

Rhetoric or Reality?

Do small schools change teaching practice?

By Linda Christensen

Do small schools change teaching practice?

My Small School Journey

An Oakland teacher experiences the negative effects of small school reform in the midst of a budget crisis

By Craig Gordon

An Oakland teacher experiences the negative effects of small school reform in the midst of a budget crisis.

Bargaining for Better Schools

One union works for meaningful small school reform

By Diana Porter

One union works for meaningful small school reform.

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