Not in Our Name

Michelle Fine in Rethinking Schools on "Reclaiming the democratic vision of small school reform"

All too many small schools have the same authoritarian principals, disempowered and uninspired educators, dubious high-stakes tests, and Eurocentric curricula as the large schools they were designed to replace. If large schools too often enact the pathologies of prisons, small schools sometimes embody the pathologies of families.