Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2005
Abstract
Maybe we weren’t clear. The small schools movement was never simply about size. When committed educators and community activists in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Oakland, Boston, and Cincinnati launched the movement, they were desperately seeking alternatives to the failures of big city high schools. They fashioned a vibrant, gutsy social movement for creating democratic, warm, and intellectually provocative schools, particularly for poor and working-class youth of color.
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This article was originally published in Rethinking Schools, available at http://rethinkingschools.aidcvt.com/restrict.asp?path=archive/19_04/name194.shtml