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Subjects:

Educational equalization -- United States.
Small schools -- United States.
Social justice -- Study and teaching -- United States.

Contents:

Simple justice: thinking about teaching and learning, equity, and the fight for small schools / William Ayers
Response: our country is rich, our people are poor: education, justice, and the politics of structural adjustment / William H. Watkins
Response: a gesture toward justice: small schools and the promise of equal education / Sonia Nieto
Remembering Port Huron / Michael Klonsky
The crisis of relationships / Deborah Meier
Who leads small schools?: teacher leadership in the midst of democratic governance / G. Alfred Hess, Jr.
John Dewey as a philosophical basis for small schools / William H. Schubert
Education for activism: Mississippi's freedom schools in the 1960s / Charles M. Payne
Where race and class are not an excuse: reflections on education in Barbados and the American education dilemma / Pedro Noguera
Art, with algebra, guards the gate / Susan Klonsky
Social justice and small schools: why we bother, why it matters / Rick Ayers
Practicing social justice in the high school classroom / Deborah Stern
When Jamas is enough: creating a school for a community (a conversation with Tamara Witzl) / Gabrielle H. Lyon
Small schools are not miniature large schools: potential pitfalls and implications for leadership / Nancy Mohr
Life after small schools: the Met's quest for social justice / Dennis Littky with Farrell Allen
A small price to pay for justice / Michelle Fine
Engaging the system / Gil Schmerler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Ayers, William, 1944-
Klonsky, Michael.
Lyon, Gabrielle H.

ISBN:

0807739634 (alk. paper)
0807739626 (pbk. :alk.paper)

OCLC:

43445800