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Small schools, big lessons
Today's public high schools are the legacy of an era when economies of scale and prevailing educational philosophies suggested that bigger was better. Evidence continues to mount, however, that breaking up large, anonymous high schools into small learning communities can dramatically improve outcomes for students. Schools that have tried this approach have raised their test scores and graduation rates and minimized the behavioral problems that plague larger institutions.
The take-away: In an era of declining educational funding and embattled teachers' unions, is reorganizing schools feasible? The short answer: yes. The authors of this piece worked with the Minneapolis public-school system in developing plans to break up seven large high schools into more than 30 small learning communities. This article provides the lessons learned along the way.
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