Home > Archives > Volume 19 - Issue 4, Summer 2005
Volume 19 Number 4
 


Small Schools, Big Issues
By the Editors of Rethinking Schools
A rundown of this special issue.

Editorial: The Small Schools 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
By Michelle Fine
Reclaiming the democratic vision of small school reform.

Standardizing Small
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.

There's a lot more inside this issue.