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An interview with Deborah Meier
with Deborah Meier on May 15, 1995
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with Deborah Meier on May 15, 1995
Deborah Meier is often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement.
After spending several years as a kindergarten teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and then New York City, Meier became the founder and director of the alternative Central Park East School, which embraced progressive ideals in the tradition of John Dewey in an effort to provide better education for “inner-city” children in East Harlem, within the New York City public school system.
Meier then served as founding principal for two other small public elementary schools, Central Park East II, and River East, both also located in East Harlem.
In 1987 Meier received a MacArthur Fellowship (often considered the “genius” award) for her work.
