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Do you have a reference about that supposed flagship high school with 20% graduation rate? I searched and couldn't find it. At least the info on why and how th
by nopinsight 13y ago
Do you have a reference about that supposed flagship high school with 20% graduation rate? I searched and couldn't find it.
At least the info on why and how they failed would be useful to many education innovators here.
- Alex3917 13y agoYeah Ravitch talks about this in her Death and Life of the Great American School System book, in Chapter 10 on p. 207. That page and a bunch of the previous pages are available to read for free on Amazon. The basic gist though is that all the research shows that medium-sized high schools are the best for students, because they're big enough that students can find classes and activities (and friends) they're interested in, but not so big that they get lost. But despite this research Gates decided to make having extremely small high schools his main educational priority, with results that were basically exactly what the research previously suggested they would be.
- GabrielF00 13y agoI know a lot of big cities have implemented small schools by essentially breaking up big high schools and putting three or four smaller schools in the same building. How does this effect how small schools perform?
- nerfhammer 13y agoDoesn't mention the graduation rate but see the "The Small-Schools Movement" section of this article: http://nsmn1.uh.edu/dgraur/niv/TheMostDangerousEquation.pdf http://nsmn1.uh.edu/dgraur/niv/TheMostDangerousEquation.pdf
- Alex3917 13y agoIt looks like that's just about one study. If you want an overview of the research, grab a copy of Riordan's book Equality and Achievement, or else Hattie's book Visible Learning.