Research about School Size and School Performance in Impoverished Communities [electronic resource] / Craig Howley, Marty Strange and Robert Bickel.

Many experts have endorsed small schools as educationally effective, often adding parenthetically that smaller size is especially beneficial for impoverished students. A recent series of studies, the "Matthew Project," bolsters these claims. This digest reviews recent thinking about small...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Howley, Craig B.
Corporate Author:	ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools
Other Authors:	Strange, Marty, Bickel, Robert
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2000.
Series:	ERIC digest.
Subjects:	Academic Achievement. Economically Disadvantaged. Educational Research. Effect Size. Elementary Secondary Education. Grade Span Configuration. Interaction. Poverty. School Size. Small Schools. Socioeconomic Influences.