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On Top of the News Another MDRC Study Confirms Wisdom of New Small High Schools 10/22/14 Real Clear Education

Sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Oregon Small Schools Initiative was a multi-year effort to bring innovation to high schools across Oregon, primarily through starting new small high schools and converting large existing schools into autonomous small learning communities.

New York City opened 40 new small high schools last year and 60 more this fall.

The same Bill Gates whose company was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein has given Chancellor Klein at least $ 70 million for creating hundreds of new small high schools and charter schools.

That record consists of eight years of rising test scores (evidenced most reliably by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-RRB-, far higher graduation rates, strong performance from the new small high schools Klein created, and often - impressive results from the growing charter schools sector that he championed.

In her sixth State of the State address, delivered on Jan. 29, Ms. Granholm called for as many as 100 new small high schools to help stem the dropout rate, starting as early as 2009.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

Just as we needed New Visions and Urban Assembly to help us start our new small high schools and add talent and program support to them, we wanted KIPP and Achievement First and Uncommon Schools — the biggest and best charter operators on the East Coast — to bring their talents and commitment to support our efforts.

At the heart of its high school reforms were three interrelated changes: the institution of a districtwide high school choice process for all rising ninth - graders, the closure of 31 large, failing high schools with an average graduation rate of 40 percent, and the opening of more than 200 new small high schools.

Because the single - year test - score increases raise as many questions as they answer about what is really happening in the schools, the administration is also boasting higher attendance rates in their new small high schools, a sign, they say, that students are more engaged in their schooling.

By contrast, the new smaller high schools, typically in black or Hispanic neighborhoods, serve about 100 students per grade.

«This study shows conclusively that our new small high schools changed thousands of lives in New York City, across every race, gender and ethnicity — not only helping them graduate, but graduate ready for college,» Mr. Walcott said.