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A Simple Justice: the Challenge of Small Schools
 Activists
and chroniclers of Chicago's small schools movement, editors William Ayers, Michael Klonsky and Gabrielle Lyon have assembled fifteen uplifting, informative essays in
A Simple Justice. Offering history,
philosophy, cultural criticism,
pedagogy and calls to action, the
various contributors make explicit
the connections among small schools,
social justice and educational equality.
Charles M. Payne's examination of
the socially progressive heritage
of Mississippi's Freedom Schools
links the small schools movement
with 1960's Civil Rights work, reminding
educators that the work they're
doing in schools today has powerful
social and historical meaning. Deborah
Meier provides "The Power of
Relationships," a concise think
piece. Pedro Noguera reflects on
the implications of educational
achievement in Barbados. Most effective
are the varied portraits of small
learning communities. Among them:
an interview with Tamara Witzl,
head of Telpochcalli, a small Chicago
K-8 school devoted to Mexican arts
and culture, and Nancy Mohr's "Small
Schools are Not Miniature Large
Schools," with incisive reflections
on her time as principal at University
Heights High School in the Bronx.
Gil Schmerler ends the collection
with "Engaging the System,"
nine pages that concretely assist
educators and leaders who strive
to expand the existence of well-run
small schools from isolated hothouse
rarities to the norm, possible in
all places, many in number and necessarily
differentiated. If you need to assemble
arguments, persuasions and inspirations
in support of small schools and
social justice, ally yourself with
the authors collected in
A Simple Justice.
reviewed by Jill Davidson
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This resource last updated: April 15, 2003
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Source: Horace. Vol. 18, 1#. Fall 2001.
Publication Year: 2001
Publisher: CES National
School Level: All
Issue: 18.1
Focus Area: School Design
STRAND: School Design: learning structures
Learning Structures: Small Learning Communities
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