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Download full textBarker, Bruce O. – 1986
Small schools (with enrollments of 300 or less) are being rediscovered as models for effective schools. Currently 26.9% of America's school systems enroll over 500,000 students in more than 26,000 small schools staffed by 50,000 teachers. Small schools have pioneered many educational "innovations": non-graded classrooms, individualized…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Environment, Educational Change, Educational Principles
