Building a Democratic School or Non-Profit: School Design Workshop

Harvard HGSE

*Lottery-based Enrollment* Boston's pilot school initiative, begun in 1994, was in the forefront of a national movement to create small, innovative learning communities as alternatives to traditional ways of organizing public education systems. This course, taught by the founding headmaster of one of Boston's most successful pilot schools (the Boston Arts Academy), examines a wide range of issues related to the philosophy, planning, governance, and sustenance of nontraditional public schools,…