Internet Sites:
• Dollars and Sense: The Cost Effectiveness of Small Schools
The KnowledgeWorks Foundation, the Rural School and Community Trust, and Concordia, Inc. have released a report that finds the relationships of school size, poverty, and student achievement shows that small schools are better for kids — particularly kids from poorer communities.
http://www.kwfdn.org/ProgramAreas/Facilities/dollars_sense.pdf
• A Back To School Special Report on the Baby Boom Echo: Growing Pains (August 21, 2000)
This report from the U.S. Department of Education examines changes in student enrollment and the challenge of overcrowded schools.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/bbecho00/
• NCEF Information Resources: School Size
This collection of resources on school size was compiled by the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities.
http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/size.cfm
• Small Schools
Resources from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools
http://www.ael.org/eric/page.cfm?&scope=ss
• Small Schools Workshop
“The Small Schools Workshop collaborates with teachers, principals, parents, and district leaders to create new, small, innovative learning communities in public schools.”
http://www.smallschoolsworkshop.org
• School Improvement Research Series – School Size, School Climate, and Student Performance
The author reviewed documents that identified a relationship between school size and aspects of schooling.
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/10/c020.html
• Education Week: Small Schools Found To Cut Price of Poverty
From the February 9, 2000 issue of Education Week. Includes links to related articles.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=22size.h19
• Are Smaller Schools Better Schools?
This article presents the results of two recent studies on school size. Includes links to further information on the studies, and related Education World articles.
http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues108.shtml
• ERIC Digest: Schools within Schools (2002)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed461915.html
• ERIC Digest: Breaking Up Large High Schools: Five Common (and Understandable) Errors of Execution (2001)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed459049.html
• ERIC Digest: Research about School Size and School Performance in Impoverished Communities (2000)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed448968.html
• Small Schools
For teachers and others interested in creating small schools, restructuring big schools and other ways of personalizing education.
To join the discussion, visit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smallschools/