Successes of Small Schools
Published: February 8, 2012
School reform advocates are rightly encouraged by new data showing that New York City students at small, specialized high schools are more likely to graduate than students in large, traditional high schools.
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The findings, part of a continuing study by the nonprofit research group MDRC, offer hope for reformers trying to save children from dropout factories in the poorest communities. It also vindicates the small school strategies of the Bloomberg administration, which has shut down about 30 large high schools in the past decade and created about 300 small schools, about a third of which are the focus of the study. Some of the large schools that the city closed down enrolled 3,000 students or more and had graduation rates under