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Direct linkLeithwood, Kenneth; Jantzi, Doris – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This review examined 57 post-1990 empirical studies of school size effects on a variety of student and organizational outcomes. The weight of evidence provided by this research clearly favors smaller schools. Students who traditionally struggle at school and students from disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds are the major benefactors of…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Disadvantaged, School Size, Evidence
Peer reviewedWatt, Toni Terling – Sociology of Education, 2003
Uses National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health 1994 to determine whether adolescents benefit from small and/or private schools. Examines depression, suicide and violent dispositions. Refutes claims that students attending these schools are more emotionally adjusted. Discovers these small and/or private schools may actually be detrimental to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Adjustment
