High School Size, Achievement Equity, and Cost

dc.creator	Robert Bickel
dc.creator	Craig Howley
dc.creator	Tony Williams
dc.creator	Catherine H. Glascock
dc.date	2001-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:17:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:17:58Z
dc.identifier	1068-2341
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9e1e7bc931594b26929207d1f3505a8f
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/26600
dc.description	The past decade has occasioned a dramatic increase in research on relationships between school size and a variety of outcomes, including measured achievement, high school completion rates, and postsecondary enrollment rates. An interesting interaction effect which has been found in replications across seven very different states is that as school size increases, the "achievement test score costs" associated with the proportion of economically disadvantaged students enrolled in a school also increase. In short, as schools get larger, average achievement among schools enrolling larger proportions of low socioeconomic-status students suffers. A traditional argument against smaller schools, however, is that they are simply
dc.language	English
dc.language	Spanish
dc.language	Portuguese
dc.publisher	Arizona State University
dc.relation	http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/369
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1068-2341
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol 9, p 40 (2001)
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	High School Size, Achievement Equity, and Cost
dc.type	article