Michael Klonsky, PhD.

Michael Klonsky, Ph.D. teaches in the College of Education at DePaul University in Chicago. He currently serves as the national director of the Small Schools Workshop.

Dr. Klonsky is a teacher educator who has spoken and written extensively on school reform issues with a focus on urban school restructuring. His book (with Susan Klonsky), Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society (Routledge), is a critique of top-down school reform and the push towards privatization of public schools. He is also the author Small Schools: The Numbers Tell a Story (University of Illinois Small Schools Workshop) and co-editor of A Simple Justice: The Challenge for Teachers in Small Schools (Teachers College Press).