Introduction: community, small schools, and school reform
Authentic learning and community
School reform: old paradigms in older bottles?
Community and small schools: a way forward?
Education and community
Learning, belonging, and school reform: why community is necessary and why community is hard
Why community is necessary
Why community is hard
Community and the communitarian critique of liberalism
The "bads" of community
Schools that are communities and schools that are not
Schools as communities
Community and normation
Community and shared educational projects
The four Cs of community
Community of practice and intellectual community
Community and the core goals of education
The idea of a practice and the transformative capacity of practices
Creating communities of practice
Democratic community: creating a polity
If we want democratic schools, what do we want?
The governance of democratic school communities
Democratic communities and common goods
Equal opportunity and democratic inclusion
Democracy, choice, and the common school
Democratic schools and a social contract
Small schools, community, and school reform
Small schools: size or community?
Research on small schools
What is a small school?
Small schools, personalization, and community
Policies for small schools: scaling up, keeping on
Scaling up: principles for creating successful small schools
Keeping on: policies for thriving school communities
Community and small schools: a new paradigm for school reform
The idea of a paradigm
Two paradigms for reform: standards and choice
Motivation and more
A third way of school reform
Community and accountability
The common view of accountability: why it is dysfunctional
Accountability for community
If wishes were fishes: conclusions, doubts, and the big picture
A few conclusions and some doubts
Silver bullets and the big picture.