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I recently ran across this vintage photo of a one-room schoolhouse in Florida (St. John’s County) for Black children. My mind immediately flashed to my deceased parents who often told stories of walking barefoot to their one-room schoolhouse in the Piney Woods of Jefferson County near Tallahassee. Then I thought of Gainesville For All’s ongoing effort to open a high-quality early learning center at Metcalfe Elementary School that would serve mostly poor and Black children who live nearby. I was saddened. It seems that so much of the progress made by African Americans in past generations has been lost. Since the Jim Crow days of my parents’ youth notable gains were made, including those by my baby boomer generation. We narrowed the achievement gap between black and white students sharply in the 1970s and the first half of the ‘80s. ....
Dorene Ross and Elizabeth Bondy Guest columnists On Feb. 21, Craig Wood and Keith Birkett published an opinion piece entitled, “Micro schools: The coming educational revolution.” They describe a micro school as one formed by parents for a small group of students across grade levels as an innovation with “much potential for success.” As teacher-educators who have spent years working in high need schools, parents of former public school children, and volunteers who work with the Guardian ad Litem program and Gainesville For All early learning center team, we have several concerns about the potential of this innovation. First, public education is a government service designed to improve society and contribute to the common good. It is important to ask how the micro schools model accomplishes these aims. How does this model contribute to equity, unity and civility in the broader community? ....