Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Hip-Hop High

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Hip-Hop High:

Hip-Hop High

by Mike Klonsky

Hip-Hop High

Sam Seidel

There are lots of kids who can't or won't connect with the traditional high school setting. Many brilliant and talented among them drop out and wind up on the street. That's one of the reasons why we created the Small Schools Workshop 20 years ago, to help educators develop small, public, personalized, alternative models focused on areas of student interests, talents and passions. While many of the ideas of the early small schools movement were captured and distorted by the regressive currents of privately-managed charter schools, there