Contributor
Ayers, William, 1944-
Imprint:New York : Teachers College Press, 2000.
Descriptionix, 198 p. ; 24 cm.
Note: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 -- Part I: GROUNDED INSIGHTS / Michael Klonksy: Remembering Port Huron / Michael Klonksy -- 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 educators in Barbados and the American education dilemma / Pedro Noguera -- Art, with algebra, guards the gate / Susan Klonsky -- Part II: PORTRAITS IN PRACTICE / Gabrielle H. Lyon: 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) / Gabrille H. Lyon -- Part III: LANDSCAPES AND LESSONS / William Ayers: 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:From the Choice review: "Ayres has edited an important text. Amid the flurry of proposed educational reform schemes--accountability, merit pay, vouchers, charters, etc.--Ayres suggests a rather simple and elegant proposal. Smaller is better. The readings are wonderful testimonials to the idea of small schools as contributors to student learning, social justice, and equity."
