Small schools research summary

[Joe Nathan <UMJoe@AOL.COM>]

When similar groups of students are compared (inner city and inner city,
rural and rural, suburban and suburban), students attending smaller schools
have higher graduation rates, better attendance,  fewer discipline  problems,
higher achievement, greater satisfaction with and school.  Faculty in small
schools, when compared with faculty in large schools, with similar groups of
students, report much higher morale.

These findings have been "confirmed with a clarity and a level of confidence
rare in the annals of educaiton research."

Mary Anne Raywid,  "Current Literature on Small Schools," ERIC Clearinghouse
on Small and Rural  Schools, Charleston, West Virginia, January, 1999.   This
6 page report is available free from  ERIC, which is the federally funded
summary of research on schools.

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