1st Edition
Small Schools Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of public school system that was fair and equitable and that encouraged new relationships between teachers and students. When that movement for school reform ran head-on into the neo-conservative takeover of the Department of Education and its... Read more
Intro: Two Trains Running 1. The Small Schools Movement Meets the Ownership Society 2. The Ownership Society—Not Just A Bumper Sticker 3. Chartering Private Management 4.The Two Faces of Philanthropy: Small Schools Along the Fault Lines of Wealth and Class 5.Think Tanks: The Brains of the Ownership Society 6. Alternatives to Top-Down Reform
Biography
Michael Klonsky, PhD. is a professor of education and Director of the Center for Innovative Schools.
Susan Klonsky is the Director of the Small Schools Workshop.
"For all those in America and elsewhere concerned about not simply giving into the models of education that have been imposed from above by a decidedly right-wing government, this is an informative and useful book." -- Teachers College Record, June 30, 2008
