Small Schools

School Choice & Charters Opinion My Love-Hate Relationship With Choice
Meier: Maybe if teachers had time to know each other, their students, and families personally, they'd grow to trust each other as partners.
Deborah Meier, January 13, 2015
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School Choice & Charters Opinion When Charters Are More Like Chain Stores Than Small Schools
Meier: When looking at charter schools what I mostly see are chains operating more like Wal-Marts than mom-and-pop stores, with authority more distant from the children and families.
Deborah Meier, January 6, 2015
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Teaching Opinion Can Schools Act as a Force Against Racism?
Meier: What are the lessons in equality that young people absorb through the structuring of schools, and how do they match the "civics" lessons they may be receiving formally?
Deborah Meier, December 9, 2014
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Teaching Opinion Confronting School Reforms That Work Against Democracy
Meier: Does a climate of fear help create excuses for more and more emergencies that can't be turned over to "the people"?
Deborah Meier, November 18, 2014
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5 min read
Standards & Accountability Opinion Schools Should Teach Students to Lead, Not Follow
Meier: Schooling for democracy must essentially be schooling for teaching the arts and crafts of ruling: to students, their teachers, and their families and neighbors.
Deborah Meier, November 11, 2014
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4 min read
School & District Management Opinion Small Schools, Stone Soup, and School Improvement
Some of the reactions to MDRC's evaluations of New York City's "small high schools" remind me of the old fable of "stone soup."
Rick Hess, October 23, 2014
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College & Workforce Readiness Report Roundup Small Schools
New York City's small high schools raise graduation rates and boost college enrollment—at a lower cost per graduate—than the city's larger high schools, according to findings from an ongoing longitudinal study.
Madeline Will, October 21, 2014
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College & Workforce Readiness More Benefits Evident in N.Y.C.'s Small High Schools Experiment
A new report from MDRC tracks small high school graduates into college and finds more are pursuing postsecondary education than those at larger schools.
Caralee J. Adams, October 16, 2014
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School & District Management N.Y.C. Small Schools Boost Graduation Rates and College Enrollment, Study Says
New findings show that New York City's "small schools of choice" raise graduation rates and boost college enrollment for economically disadvantaged students.
Madeline Will, October 16, 2014
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2 min read
Teaching Opinion Teachers' Unions, Democracy, & Risk-Taking
What, Leo, could we do to make the unions we most respect become places that teach democracy on a daily basis?
Deborah Meier, September 30, 2014
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4 min read
College & Workforce Readiness Alaska Adopts New Rating Formula For Small Rural Schools
Alaska has altered the formula used to rate schools to account for unique challenges of small, rural, and alternative schools
Jackie Mader, June 12, 2014
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1 min read
School Choice & Charters Opinion What's Good for Rich Kids Is Good for Poor Ones, Too
Meier: It is galling when rich people in the ed policy field tell me that class size doesn't matter-and pay a lot to send their kids to schools with half as many students per class as urban schools.
Deborah Meier, June 5, 2014
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3 min read
School & District Management Opinion Reform for Other People's Children
Klonsky: What we know for sure is that all over the country, power-philanthropists are making "gifts" to resource-starved school systems.
Michael Klonsky, June 3, 2014
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6 min read
Standards & Accountability Opinion Urban, Rural Schools Connected by Inequality
Klonsky: Small rural schools, which often served as community anchors, were (are) being closed by the hundreds.
Guest Blogger, May 27, 2014
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5 min read
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