I wonder if the folks planning how were spending the $1.800,000,000 on schools in New Orleans are paying attention to the research. For at least the past decade, a growing body of research has suggested that smaller high schools graduate more and better-prepared students than megasized schools. If common sense tells you that huge institutions are intimidating to teenagers, so do the statistics: The U.S. Department of Education compared crime at small high schools (three hundred students or fewer) with that at large schools (more than a thousand) and found that big campuses incurred 825 percent more violent crime, 394 percent more fights, and 378 percent more theft. Itd be nice if the media were doing its job covering this. But, alas… js
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:14:06 +0000
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