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School Size - Bigger Is Not Better
Mr. Kirkpatrick, Senior Education Fellow at the US Freedom Foundation, says that the establishment of new, smaller schools is good. Article posted with permission of the author by David Kirkpatrick ![]()
Many reasons have been given for the decline of the educational system in recent decades, such as the growth of teacher unions and the weakening of family structures. Perhaps each of these factors plays a role. But so, too, may be the building of larger schools, which also has coincided with the growing problems.
If the question is whether a new school should be a large centralized one, the overwhelming evidence says no. |