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Small Schools Work After All, a Good Study Shows
EducationNext,
July 06, 2010
In Chablis-sipping circles, it has become fashionable to condemn the small-school initiative by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation encouraged urban school districts to close large, dysfunctional high schools and replace them with smaller ones, either in alternative spaces or by placing several schools within the building that once housed the large one...
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Cash Incentive Program for Poor Families to Expire
NPR,
July 05, 2010
For the past three years, New York City has been paying poor families to engage in positive behaviors like staying in school or going to the dentist...
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A Court's Tragic Ruling Keeps Kids in Failing Schools
New York Daily News op-ed by Joel Klein,
July 02, 2010
Last week, the respected research group MDRC published a landmark report which found that the policy of replacing our city's failing schools with new, small high schools has resulted in dramatic improvements in the lives of tens of thousands of our children, including many traditionally disadvantaged students...
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Small Schools
New York Times editorial,
July 01, 2010
School reform advocates are rightly excited about a persuasive new study showing that New York City’s small, specialized high schools are outperforming larger, more traditional schools, significantly narrowing the graduation-rate gap that currently exists between white and minority students across the city...
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Prove It or Lose It
Youth Today,
July 01, 2010
Barack Obama campaigned on the promise to eliminate federal programs that don’t work, change programs that don’t quite measure up and consolidate duplicate programs...
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NYC Success Suggests Better Fix for Urban High Schools
The Washington Post,
June 25, 2010
A wise commenter on this blog who signs in as edlharris suggested recently that the best test of the charter school networks that are getting so much praise would be to take over a regular, inner city, low-performing school. "They would have to keep the current population, take any student who moves within its boundaries and not be able to expel a student unless they engaged in physical assault," he said...
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Report: Small High Schools Boost Graduation Rates
Wall Street Journal,
June 23, 2010
Soon after taking over the country’s largest school system, Chancellor Joel Klein began to shutter large, failing high schools and replaced them with smaller schools. A new report released Wednesday shows how that effort has increased graduation rates for the mostly poor, minority students attending the new schools...
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Study Finds Success in NYC's 'Small Schools'
Education Week,
June 23, 2010
At a time when reformers and philanthropists have largely turned their back on the “small schools” movement, a major study of New York City high schools has found that students are more academically successful in smaller, more personal high schools that they choose for themselves than they are in larger, more traditional schools...
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Small NYC High Schools Found to Boost Achievement
Associated Press,
June 22, 2010
They were known as dropout factories: big high schools in poor neighborhoods where only a quarter to a third of students graduated...
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Smaller City Schools A Success, Report Finds
NY1 News,
June 22, 2010
Since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took control of the school system, more than 20 large high schools have been replaced by more than 200 small schools. And a new report says kids in those schools seem to be doing better...
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