My Small School Journey
An Oakland teacher experiences the negative effects of small school reform in the midst of a budget crisis.
Departments
Bargaining for Better Schools
One union works for meaningful small school reform.
We’re Not Blind. Just Follow the Dollar Sign
Chicago’s renaissance” could mean dark age for city’s public schools.”
Youth Take the Lead on High School Reform Issues
Sistas and Brothas United.
No Child Left Untested
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Katrina’s Lessons
It wasn’t just the hurricane that devastated the Gulf; it was also a slower, more preventable surge of racism and poverty.
Free-Market Education
Graphic evidence that school vouchers do not guarantee school quality in Milwaukee.
Christopher Columbus and the Iraq War
How the myth built up around Columbus has helped condition kids to accept imperial adventures like the Iraq war.
Film: Inspiration From Mexico’s Rank and File
Film: Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) by director: Jill Friedberg, Corrugated Films, 2005, DVD. 60 min.
Getting to the Heart of Quality Teaching
Catchy slogans, top-down mandates and shallow reforms won’t improve teacher quality. Real progress will only happen if teachers, parents, teacher unions and school and community leaders all play a role.
Teacher Organizers Take Quality into Their Own Hands
Details on teacher-quality initiatives taking root around the country.
Transforming Teacher Education
UCLA’s Center Xsets out to help Los Angeles’ struggling schools.
Conversations on Quality
The visionary school reformer discusses quality teaching, race and class, and the shortcomings of No Child Left Behind.
The Tsunami and Other Disasters
The Dec. 26 tsunami swept away the lives of more than 200,000 people and ravaged the livelihoods of millions more. Throughout the world teachers and students discussed the tsunami and […]
California’s Grassroots Grow
Sacramento On Aug. 13, 2004, the California Supreme Court settled a historic case— Williams v. the State of California. The Williams decision validated the concerns of many Californians that the state had fallen […]
Book Review: Messing With Texas
Leaving Children Behind: How “Texas-style” Accountability Fails Latino YouthEdited by Angela Valenzuela State University of New York Press, 2005 313 pp. $73.50 “Everything is bigger in Texas,” the saying goes. Apparently it’s true. […]
Editorial: The Small School Express
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.
Standardizing Small
How testing and top-down reform can undermine small schools.
An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates
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.
The Gates Foundation and Small Schools
The Gates’ $735 million have made them key players in small school reform.
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.
A Little School in a Little Chinatown
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
The principal of Brooklyn’s El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice shows how art can connect students with their communities.