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What Happened at the Mission Hill School? : The Struggle to Sustain a Small Democratic Progressive School in a Large Urban System
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Meier, Deborah; Lyne, Heidi; Knoester, Matthew – Schools: Studies in Education, 2023
This article details the demise of a small multicultural and democratic school in a large urban district. After a successful 25-year run, a public school built on principles of progressive and democratic education was dismantled and destroyed. The article attempts to expose the contradictions and untruths in the story of Mission Hill School's…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Democracy, Small Schools
Finding the Cracks: Progressive, Democratic Education in an Era of Standardization
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Elliott, Shanti; Bradbury, Joan; Gardner, Joseph – Schools: Studies in Education, 2014
In the spring of 2014, Chicago educators met to reflect on the opportunities and challenges for progressive, democratic education in Chicago-area schools. This article weaves together the writings of teachers and principals from over 15 public schools and a couple of private and parochial schools who are thinking about their own experiences in…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Democracy, Public Schools, Private Schools
Leading for Democracy in Urban Schools: Toward a Culturally Relevant Progressivism
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Seher, Rachel – Schools: Studies in Education, 2013
The article examines the enactment of culturally relevant progressivism on the part of the principal of the Social Justice School, a small urban public high school explicitly committed to democratic education. Drawing upon extensive interviews and field observations conducted over the course of an academic year by a teacher-researcher within the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Democracy, Social Justice, High Schools