RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Free School Movement
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 351
OP 373
DO 10.17763/haer.42.3.n577v0m481wvl1r2
VO 42
IS 3
A1 Graubard, Allen
YR 1972
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/42/3/351.abstract
AB The author presents objective data concerning the number, growth, location, staffing patterns, size, and finances of free schools. He then defines four types of free schools: the "classical" free school, the parent-teacher cooperative elementary school, the free high school, and the community elementary school. Distinguishing between pedagogical and political freedom, the author then discusses the varying conceptions of social change associated with each type, with special attention given to socioeconomic factors. The key question framing this analysis is "what role do free schools play—what role can they play—in effecting change in the much larger public school system?"