Learning Large. Debra Nussbaum.
by Nussbaum, Debra; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 9Institutions. Publisher: Philadelphia Inquirer, 2003ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Class size | High school students -- Attitudes | High schools | Multiculturalism | School size | Student activitiesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Large high schools have been a fact of life for decades, but now the federal government is taking a renewed interest. In the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act signed by President Bush, the Department of Education emphasized the importance of the buzzwords smaller learning communities, and backed the concept with dollars. Large high schools can apply for grants to work on programs that make schools feel more intimate....The government contends that studies show smaller environments boost student achievement and that 400 to 800 is the ideal population. Smaller is better has almost universal support." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) The author relates the feelings of students at one of Pennsylvania's largest high schools, Upper Darby, who think that "bigger is better" and that the grant money would be better spent on computers or laboratory equipment than on creating smaller learning environments.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
Originally Published: Learning Large, March 16, 2003; pp. Mag. Sec, 14-18.
"Large high schools have been a fact of life for decades, but now the federal government is taking a renewed interest. In the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act signed by President Bush, the Department of Education emphasized the importance of the buzzwords smaller learning communities, and backed the concept with dollars. Large high schools can apply for grants to work on programs that make schools feel more intimate....The government contends that studies show smaller environments boost student achievement and that 400 to 800 is the ideal population. Smaller is better has almost universal support." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) The author relates the feelings of students at one of Pennsylvania's largest high schools, Upper Darby, who think that "bigger is better" and that the grant money would be better spent on computers or laboratory equipment than on creating smaller learning environments.
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