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Monday, May 21, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Michael Klonsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago will give a lecture, "Small Schools: A Better Way to Teach Kids, at 4 p.m., Wednesday, May 23, in the Common Room, Old Main, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The talk is free and open to the public
Klonsky currently serves as director of the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The workshop helps public school districts create smaller, more personalized learning environments.
Klonsky has written extensively on the benefits of small schools as well as on broader school reform issues. He is the author of "Small Schools: The Numbers Tell a Story" and co-editor of "Simple Justice: The Challenge for Teachers in Small Schools." He is a member of the National Advisory Council on Youth Violence and has served as president of the editorial board of Catalyst, Chicago's school-reform journal. He has written extensively on the history and progress of school reform in Chicago.
Related Pages:
Small Schools Workshop -- http://www.uic.edu/depts/educ/ssw/
Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,220 students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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