School Size Restructuring

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This paper explains that smaller schools and class sizes produce improved student literacy, academic achievement, and social skills. The author points out that children taught in smaller size classes, especially in grades K-3, receive more personalized attention, which leads to improved student learning and long-term academic achievement, thereby, laying the foundation for a brighter economic future for both students and society. The paper also relates that smaller school sizes are less likely to foster alienation, drug use, and risky behaviors found on large campuses; students at small schools also benefit from a sense of belonging, as the schools are more like a community.

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"Larger schools may well fulfill the federal and state governments need for accommodating more students within the available budgets and resources such as land. However, the question that really needs to be examined is whether such large facilities achieve long-term educational goals. The answer is clearly in the negative as indicated by research evidence from the results of over 100 studies on school size: "Student achievement in small schools 'often superior'. In addition, a large body of research in the affective and social realms overwhelmingly affirms the superiority of small schools." "

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