Smaller Schools: A Necessity
Learn why smaller schools are important and effective.
Experts agree that smaller schools are safer. Read the findings and more here.
An abstract of a digest by Craig Howley dispels the myth that schools must be large to provide adequate curricular offerings.A minimum of 400 students is suggested.
An excellent discussion on creating communities of learners and rethinking the school's use of time.
An AFT inspired charter for schools-within-schools in a 1993 NCREL Policy Brief.
A description of the school-within-a-school program at Thurgood Marshall Middle School.
A digest by Mary Anne Rawid reviewing "current movement to downsize urban schools to help educators decide whether and why to pursue such a move, and to indicate which models appear most promising."
"A recent report on high school reform,
Breaking Ranks, cites anonymity and apathy as the leading causes of problems in the typical large high school."
An abstract #ED396888 of a paper by Valerie E. Lee examining how students' reading and mathematics achievement gains over the high school years are influenced by the size of the high school they attend
Don't miss this in depth discussion of research explaining the advantages of small schools.
. Duval County School board plans large schools despite research findings and consultants' advice.
An article comparing and contrasting several models of small school structures. Includes hot linked citations.
