Here she is, in a very large urban high school, in an area of town with no industry and the highest crime rate in the city. (karenpower.blog)
It spent about $ 650 million on a program to replace large urban high schools with smaller schools, on the theory that students at risk of dropping out would be more likely to stay in schools where they forged closer bonds with teachers and other students. (washingtonpost.com)
A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building. (gse.harvard.edu)