[...] In Small Schools Loosely Joined, I suggested a structure of community-based schools, linked by information technologies to other communities of learners. The basic premise was of local control but global participation, without the layers of the current educational system’s bureaucracy. I took the title from “Small pieces, loosely joined”; Dave Weinberger’s Unified Theory of the Web. As Dave says: “The Web is a new public space, solving the old contradiction between viewing ourselves as faceless members of a mass and as “face-ful” unique individuals.” …