Smaller Schools and Districts

Tag: junior high

  • Small Classes, Small Schools

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    Seth Cox

    Patricia A. Wasley writes a very insightful look at the relationship between small classes and small schools. Of course, research shows that small schools are mostly found in smaller school districts, so this article is a reflection of that, too. Students in schools with large populations of disadvantaged students perform least well on standardized assessments.…

  • New York Leaps into the Middle School Trap : Education Next

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    Seth Cox

    New York Leaps into the Middle School Trap : Education Next “In the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K–8 elementary…

  • 7-12 Secondary schools instead of jr. highs

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    Seth Cox

    Jr. highs have proven to be the worst time of a student’s public school experience. That’s when kids are most likely to take a nose dive in either behavior or academics. Many people have just written it off to hormones! While that makes things harder, the configurations of middle schools and jr. highs play a…