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High School Size, Organization, and Content: What Matters for Student Success? 高中规模、组织和内容:对学生成功有什么影响?
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0001
L. Darling-Hammond, Peter A. Ross, M. Milliken
In recent years, the large comprehensive high school has been a sub ject of growing c itique by researchers and reformers. "Factory model" schools have been criticized for their impersonal structures, fragmented curricula, segregated and unequal program options, and inability to respond effectively to student needs.1 Some studies have found that, other things equal, smaller schools appear to produce higher achievement, lower dropout rates, lower rates of violence and vandalism, more positive feelings about self and school, and more participation in school activities. These outcomes appear more pronounced for students who are traditionally lower achieving.2 In addi tion, the belief that large schools are necessarily more cost-effective has been challenged by studies finding equivalent operating costs and lower costs per graduate in smaller schools.3 However, there are competing findings about the effects of smaller schools for different groups of students and about the effects of school size and orga nizational features in diverse contexts. This review examines these findings across a wide range of studies over the last thirty years. We conclude that the influences of size appear to be mediated by other features of school organiza tions that are sometimes, but not always, associated with size, making the relationship between school size and many desired outcomes an indirect one. These other features are associated with aspects of school design, including how adults and students are organized to work together, the nature of the cur
近年来,大型综合高中一直是研究人员和改革者日益关注的问题。“工厂模式”学校因其非人格化的结构、支离破碎的课程、隔离和不平等的课程选择以及无法有效回应学生的需求而受到批评一些研究发现,在其他条件相同的情况下,规模较小的学校似乎能产生更高的成就,更低的辍学率,更低的暴力和破坏行为率,对自我和学校更积极的感觉,更多地参与学校活动。这些结果在那些传统上成绩较差的学生身上表现得更为明显此外,一些研究发现,规模较小的学校的运营成本相当,而且每个毕业生的成本更低,这一观点受到了挑战然而,关于小型学校对不同学生群体的影响,以及不同背景下学校规模和组织特征的影响,有一些相互矛盾的发现。这篇综述在过去三十年的广泛研究中检查了这些发现。我们的结论是,规模的影响似乎是由学校组织的其他特征介导的,这些特征有时(但并不总是)与规模有关,这使得学校规模与许多期望结果之间的关系是间接的。这些其他特征与学校设计的各个方面有关,包括如何组织成人和学生一起工作,学校的性质
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引用次数: 51
School Consolidation and Inequality 学校合并与不平等
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0000
Christopher R. Berry
One of the most remarkable yet least remarked upon accomplishments in American public education in the twentieth century is the success of the school consolidation movement. Between 1930 and 1970, 9 out of every 10 school districts were eliminated through consolidation. Nearly two-thirds of schools that existed as of 1930 were gone by 1970. The overall effect of these and related reforms was to transform the small, informal, community controlled schools of the 19th century into centralized, professionally run educational bureaucracies. The American public school system as we know it was born during this brief, dynamic period. While school consolidation represents arguably the most profound reform movement in 20th century education, almost nothing is known about its consequences for students. In earlier work on the consolidation movement (Berry and West, 2005), Martin West and I found that students educated in systems with larger schools earned significantly lower wages as adults. Like many others who have studied the relationship between school attributes and student outcomes, we focused our attention on average outcomes. However, there is good reason to suspect that school consolidation influenced the variation in student outcomes as well. In particular, by dramatically cutting the number of schools and districts, consolidation reduced an important source of betweenschool and between-district variation in educational quality. At the same time, however, consolidation was motivated by a desire to increase instructional specialization, which could be achieved by substantially increasing the size of schools and districts. Thus, within-school and within-district variation in education quality may have risen as schools and districts became larger and instruction more specialized. This paper investigates the relationship between changes in school and district size and variation in student outcomes, as measured by adult wage inequality.
20世纪美国公共教育中最引人注目却又最少被提及的成就之一是学校合并运动的成功。从1930年到1970年,每10个学区中就有9个因合并而被取消。到1970年,将近三分之二的1930年存在的学校消失了。这些改革和相关改革的总体效果是将19世纪的小型、非正式、社区控制的学校转变为集中的、专业管理的教育官僚机构。我们所知道的美国公立学校系统诞生于这个短暂而充满活力的时期。虽然学校合并可以说是20世纪最深刻的教育改革运动,但它对学生的影响几乎一无所知。在关于合并运动的早期工作中(Berry and West, 2005), Martin West和我发现,在规模较大的学校系统中接受教育的学生成年后的工资明显较低。像其他许多研究学校属性和学生成绩之间关系的人一样,我们把注意力集中在平均成绩上。然而,有充分的理由怀疑学校合并也影响了学生成绩的变化。特别是,通过大幅削减学校和学区的数量,整合减少了学校和学区之间教育质量差异的一个重要来源。然而,与此同时,加强教学专业化的愿望推动了合并,这可以通过大幅度增加学校和地区的规模来实现。因此,随着学校和学区变得更大,教学更加专业化,学校和学区内部教育质量的差异可能会上升。本文调查了学校和学区规模的变化与学生成绩的变化之间的关系,以成人工资不平等来衡量。
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引用次数: 18
Introduction: What Do We Know about School Size and Class Size? 导言:我们对学校规模和班级规模了解多少?
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0005
Tom Loveless, Tom Hess
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引用次数: 9
Policy from the Hip: Class Size Reduction in California 时髦的政策:加州缩减班级规模
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0009
P. Schrag
Abstract: In the spring of 1996, California Gov. Pete Wilson pushed a class size reduction plan through the state legislature to limit all classes in grades K-3 to 20 students in a state where many had 30 or more students. With one significant exception, there was little research to support such a sweeping plan, a point Wilson himself had made when he opposed CSR earlier in his administration. But Wilson, faced with a constitutional requirement to put a large part of the state’s new revenues into the schools, and wanting to keep the money off the union bargaining table, prevailed over the warnings of skeptics to go slow.
摘要:1996年春,加州州长皮特·威尔逊通过州立法机构推动了一项班级规模缩减计划,将K-3年级的所有班级限制在20人以内,而该州许多学生人数在30人以上。除了一个明显的例外,几乎没有研究支持这样一个全面的计划,这是威尔逊本人在1990年早些时候反对CSR时所提出的观点。但威尔逊面对宪法要求将该州大部分新收入投入学校的要求,并希望将这笔钱从工会的谈判桌上拿走,他战胜了怀疑论者的警告,慢慢来。
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引用次数: 17
The Effects of School Size on Parental Involvement and Social Capital: Evidence from the ELS: 2002 学校规模对家长参与和社会资本的影响:来自ELS的证据;2002
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0002
T. Dee, Wei Ha, B. Jacob
An increasingly prominent approach to school reform emphasizes the possible benefits of creating smaller schools. Proponents argue that small schools are more effective than large schools at promoting student achievement, in large part because they have positive effects on the engagement and social interactions of students and staff. The analysis presented here explores another potentially distinct effect of small schools: the enhanced involvement of students’ parents in the school and the promotion of social capital in the larger community. We present new empirical evidence on whether the size of public high schools influences measures of parental involvement and social capital. This analysis is based on nationally representative data from the base year of the recent Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002). In addition to conducting standard multivariate analyses, we attempt to establish bounds on the causal effects of school size by using the differences in observed traits across parents connected to smaller and larger schools as a guide to the size and direction of their potentially confounding unobserved traits. The results presented here provide tentative evidence that small schools are more effective in promoting parental involvement in schools as well as engagement in the broader community. We find that in rural communities smaller high schools not only increase the probability that parents take part in parent-teacher association activities and volunteer at the school but also promote some measures of social capital (for example, knowledge of other parents and community identification). However, we find no such evidence in suburban communities. Unfortunately, there are so few small schools in the urban communities in our data that we cannot say much about the influence of school size in these contexts. Taken as a whole, our results suggest that there may be some beneficial effects of small schools on the outcomes we consider, but there may also be cultural or economic features unique to rural communities that limit the external validity of these results for other areas.
一种日益突出的学校改革方法强调创建小型学校可能带来的好处。支持者认为,在促进学生成绩方面,小型学校比大型学校更有效,这在很大程度上是因为它们对学生和教职员工的参与和社会互动有积极影响。本文的分析探讨了小型学校的另一个潜在的独特影响:学生家长对学校的参与程度提高,以及在更大的社区中促进社会资本。我们提出了新的实证证据,证明公立高中的规模是否会影响家长参与和社会资本的测量。这一分析是基于最近的2002年教育纵向研究(ELS:2002)的基准年的全国代表性数据。除了进行标准的多变量分析外,我们还试图通过使用与较小学校和较大学校相关的父母之间观察到的特征差异来建立学校规模因果效应的界限,作为其潜在的未观察到的混淆特征的大小和方向的指导。这里提出的结果提供了初步证据,证明小型学校在促进家长参与学校和更广泛的社区活动方面更有效。我们发现,在农村社区,规模较小的高中不仅增加了家长参加家长教师协会活动和学校志愿者的可能性,而且还促进了一些社会资本指标(例如其他家长的知识和社区认同)。然而,我们在郊区社区没有发现这样的证据。不幸的是,在我们的数据中,城市社区的小型学校太少了,我们不能说太多关于学校规模在这些背景下的影响。作为一个整体,我们的结果表明,小型学校可能对我们考虑的结果有一些有益的影响,但也可能存在农村社区特有的文化或经济特征,这些特征限制了这些结果在其他地区的外部有效性。
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引用次数: 21
Class Size and School Size: Taking the Trade-Offs Seriously 班级规模和学校规模:认真权衡利弊
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0003
Douglas N. Harris
Small classes and small schools appear to have educational benefits for students. In small classes, children experience fewer disrup tions and receive more personal attention and individualized instruction. Likewise, in small schools, students appear to feel safer and less likely to get "lost in the crowd" and teachers are able to provide a more coherent curricu lum. There is a large research literature, including many of the papers in this volume, suggesting that these qualities of the learning environment translate
小班和小学校似乎对学生有教育上的好处。在小班教学中,孩子们受到的干扰更少,得到更多的个人关注和个性化指导。同样,在小型学校,学生似乎感到更安全,不太可能“迷失在人群中”,教师能够提供更连贯的课程。有大量的研究文献,包括本卷中的许多论文,表明这些品质的学习环境翻译
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引用次数: 23
The Relative Influence of Research on Class Size Policy 班级规模政策研究的相对影响
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0004
J. Kim
Social science research suggests that reducing class size has its largest effects on the achievement of minority and inner-city children during the first year of formal schooling.' Despite scholarly disagreements about the implications of specific studies on class size, economists generally agree that targeted class-size policies rest on stronger evidence than untargeted policies. For example, economist Eric Hanushek contends that "surely class-size reductions are beneficial in specific circumstances—for specific groups of students, subject matters, and teachers."^ Similarly, economist Alan Krueger notes that the "effect sizes found in the STAR experiment and much of the literature are greater for minority and disadvantaged students than for other students [and] economic considerations suggest that resources would be optimally allocated if they were targeted toward those who benefit the most from smaller classes."^ However, a number of state legislatures have enacted untargeted and expensive policies to reduce class sizes in all schools, among all subgroups of students, and beyond the early elementary grades. Therefore, the central tension between research and policy in the class-size debate is this: research seems to support targeted class-size policies most strongly, but targeted policies are the exception rather than the norm in the policy arena. As a result, some social scientists have criticized across-the-board class-size reductions as prohibitively expensive and scientifically indefensible.'*
社会科学研究表明,减少班级规模对少数族裔和贫民区儿童第一年正式学校教育的成绩影响最大。”尽管学术界对班级规模具体研究的影响存在分歧,但经济学家普遍认为,有针对性的班级规模政策比无针对性的政策基于更有力的证据。例如,经济学家埃里克·哈努舍克认为,“在特定的情况下,班级规模的缩减肯定是有益的——对特定的学生群体、科目和教师来说。”^同样,经济学家艾伦·克鲁格(Alan Krueger)指出,“在STAR实验和许多文献中发现的效应大小对少数族裔和弱势学生的影响大于对其他学生的影响,(而且)从经济学角度考虑,如果资源被用于那些从小班授课中受益最多的学生,那么资源将得到最佳分配。”然而,许多州的立法机构已经制定了没有目标的和昂贵的政策来减少所有学校的班级规模,在所有的学生小组中,并且超出了小学低年级。因此,在班级规模辩论中,研究和政策之间的核心紧张关系是这样的:研究似乎最强烈地支持有针对性的班级规模政策,但有针对性的政策是政策领域的例外,而不是常态。因此,一些社会科学家批评说,全面削减班级规模的做法代价高昂,而且在科学上站不住脚
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引用次数: 11
Is Small Really Better? Testing Some Assumptions about High School Size 小真的更好吗?测试一些关于高中规模的假设
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0008
B. Schneider, Adam E. Wyse, V. Keesler
Several years ago, I was in a meeting with a group of Chicago pub lic school coaches and physical education teachers who were discussing the negative implications of one of Chicago's recent reform initia tives, the construction of smaller high schools. Much like other urban areas, Chicago had begun dismantling some of its large high schools to form smaller entities, with an "optimal" enrollment of 600 students. The coaches were deeply concerned that the small school movement was fostering the elimina tion of school-sponsored athletic teams, which sometimes acted as a magnet for marginal students, encouraging them to complete high school and in some instances enroll in college. From their perspective, intramural teams were unable to fill the void left by school-sponsored teams, which had helped some students obtain postsecondary scholarships and promoted a high school iden tity that instilled pride in the student body. Reflecting on their comments, I was struck by how my work and that of oth ers had championed small schools. Could we have been wrong? Small schools were generally viewed as places that fostered a strong sense of community and encouraged academic achievement and attainment. But many of us had not explored whether small schools were better for all types of students. More specifically, would the consequences of creating small-school environments prove to be detrimental, especially for low-income minority students enrolled in urban high schools?
几年前,我和一群芝加哥公立学校的教练和体育老师开会,他们正在讨论芝加哥最近的一项改革举措——建设规模较小的高中——所带来的负面影响。就像其他城市地区一样,芝加哥已经开始拆除一些大型高中,组建规模较小的实体,“最佳”招生人数为600名。教练们非常担心,这种小规模的学校运动正在推动学校赞助的运动队的消失,这些运动队有时会像磁铁一样吸引边缘学生,鼓励他们完成高中学业,在某些情况下还会进入大学。从他们的角度来看,校内团队无法填补学校赞助团队留下的空白,这些团队帮助一些学生获得了高等教育奖学金,并促进了一种高中身份,向学生群体灌输了自豪感。回想他们的评论,我对自己和其他人的工作是如何支持小型学校感到震惊。难道我们错了吗?小型学校通常被视为培养强烈社区意识和鼓励学术成就和成就的地方。但是我们中的许多人并没有探索过小型学校是否对所有类型的学生都更好。更具体地说,创建小学校环境的后果是否会被证明是有害的,特别是对于在城市高中就读的低收入少数民族学生?
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引用次数: 50
Optimal Context Size in Elementary Schools: Disentangling the Effects of Class Size and School Size 小学最佳情境规模:班级规模与学校规模的影响
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0006
Douglas D. Ready, V. Lee
Young children's learning?and how their learning is distributed by social background?may be influenced by the truc ural an organizational properties of their school. This study focuses on one important structural dimension of these educational contexts: size. Over the past several decades, various elements of the size of educational contexts have become a major focus of researchers, politicians, and corporate leaders. Billions of pub lic and private dollars have been invested in reforms to reduce the size and scope of both classrooms and schools. Unlike many educational reform initia tives, these downsizing efforts have found support from virtually every quarter. A united front of stakeholders has coalesced behind the notion that "smaller is better." Although size-reduction policies are well intentioned, their effective ness is unclear, and some efforts have produced unintended and even undesirable consequences. Moreover, their cost-effectiveness has seldom been considered. Based on results from the famous Tennessee class-size experiment, Cali fornia invested billions of dollars encouraging its schools to limit classes in the early grades to no more than twenty students. Quite recently, the push to reduce the size of high schools has been accompanied by enormous financial support from foundations and the federal government in an effort to encourage schools within-schools, small learning communities, and small stand-alone schools. Curiously, these important policy initiatives?reduced class size and reduced
幼儿的学习?他们的学习是如何根据社会背景分布的?可能会受到学校的结构和组织性质的影响。本研究关注这些教育背景的一个重要结构维度:规模。在过去的几十年里,教育环境规模的各种因素已经成为研究人员、政治家和企业领导人关注的主要焦点。数以十亿计的公共和私人资金已投入改革,以缩小教室和学校的规模和范围。与许多教育改革举措不同,这些缩减规模的努力几乎得到了各个方面的支持。利益相关者的统一战线在“越小越好”的理念下凝聚在一起。虽然减员政策的初衷是好的,但其有效性尚不清楚,一些努力产生了意想不到的甚至不希望的后果。此外,它们的成本效益很少得到考虑。根据著名的田纳西州班级规模实验的结果,加州投入了数十亿美元,鼓励学校将低年级班级人数限制在20人以内。最近,减少高中规模的努力得到了来自基金会和联邦政府的巨大财政支持,以鼓励校中校、小型学习社区和小型独立学校。奇怪的是,这些重要的政策举措?减少班级规模,减少
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引用次数: 17
International Evidence on Expenditure and Class Size: A Review 关于支出和班级规模的国际证据:综述
Pub Date : 2007-05-09 DOI: 10.1353/PEP.2007.0010
Ludger Woessmann
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引用次数: 40
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