Publications -- Effectiveness of Small Schools/Small Classes
Achilles, Charles M. “Students achieve more in smaller classes.” Educational Leadership. (1996) 53, 5:76-77.
Biddle, B. J. and Berliner, D. C. “Small class size and it effects.” Educational Leadership. (2002) 59, 5: 12-22.
Bohrnstedt, George W. and Stecher, Brian M. (eds). What we have learned about class size reduction in California Sacramento, Calif.: Department of Education, 2002.
Butin, Dan. Classrooms. Washington, D.C.: National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, 2000.
Chan, T. C. Environmental impact on student learning. Valdosta, Ga.: Valdosta State College, 1996.
Cotton, Kathleen. New small learning communities: findings from recent literature. Portland, Ore.: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 2001.
Daniels, Harvey, Marilyn Bizar and Steven Zemelman. Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001.
Dunne, Diane Weaver. “Are smaller schools better schools?” Education World, 20 July 2000.
Fowler, William J. Jr. and Walberg, Herbert J. “School size, characteristics and outcomes,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 13, 2, Summer 1991: 189-202.
Gottfredson, Denise C. School Size and School Disorder. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Report No. 360, July 1985, as summarized in Effective Schools Research Abstracts, Volume 1, issue 3.
Juvonen, Joanna et al. Focus on the Wonder Years: Challenges Facing the American Middle School. New York: Rand Education, 2004.
Lackney, Jeffrey A. Reading a school building like a book: the influence of the physical school setting on learning and literacy. Jackson, Miss.: Educational Design Institute, Mississippi State University, 1999.
Lee, Valerie E. and Loch, Susanna. “School size in Chicago elementary schools: effect on teachers’ attitudes and students’ achievement,” AmericanEducational Research Journal, 37, 1, Spring 2000: 3-31.
Luyten, Hans. “The Size of School Effects Compared to Teacher Effects: An Overview of the Research Literature,” School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 14:1, March 2003, pp. 31-51, as summarized in Effective Schools Research Abstracts, Volume 18, issue 1.
Monk, D. H. “Secondary school size and curriculum comprehensiveness,” Economics of Education Review, 6, 2, 1987: 137-150.
Nathan, Joe. “A charter school decade,” Education Week, 21, 38: 32, 35.
Rand Education Research Brief, “Problems and Promise of the American Middle School,” available on their website.
Raywid, Mary Anne. “Small schools: a reform that works,” Educational Leadership, 55, 4:34-39.
Schnitzer, Denise K. and Capiro, Michael J. “Academic Rewards,” Educational Leadership, 57, 1 (September 1999): 46-48.
Stevenson, Kenneth R. “Ten Educational Trends Shaping School Planning and Design,” National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, September 2002.
Wasley, Patricia A. and Fine, Michelle. “Small schools and the issue of scale,” Bank Street College of Education, New York, NY, 2000 (summarized in Effective Schools Research Abstracts, 15, 3).
Vander Ark, Tom. “The case for small high schools,” Educational Leadership, 59, 5, 2002: 55-59.
Updated, April 4, 2007