Talk:Small schools movement

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Expansion ideas

This article needs adoption by someone specializing in research on school size research. It also needs to mention the "school within a school" concept. Lawikitejana 19:33, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

I have proposed that small learning community be merged into the present article. That topic and this topic (small schools) are redundant. The present article, while biased in its presentation of the topic (the cited research is overwhelmingly supportive of this trend), is less biased than the small learning community article. Furthermore, that article is written in a manner akin to that of a promotional piece. Finally, as a school is a "learning community" that other article is redundant; and the very title small learning community rings with jargonism, a practice that wikipedia warns its editors to avoid.Gogue2 (talk) 01:53, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure I agree - there are two distinct arguments being made here - and perhaps the distinction needs to be more clear - and primarily in the context of a 9-12 high school. There are those promoting small schools - where the absolute number of students is small (<1000 students) - and there are those promoting comprehensive high schools with "schools within a school" or smaller learning communities. By merging the articles this distinction is less likely to be clear to the reader. Separately, "smaller learning community" is an accepted phrase and should not be arbitrarily tied to "small school". DublinRanch (talk) 14:46, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV

The length of the section describing the benefits of a small school system is laughably longer than the criticisms. Also, the few criticisms that are listed are barely explored. It almost looks as if this article was simply a modified lower-collegiate level paper on why we should switch to a Small School system, not an encyclopedic article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.240.228.146 (talk) 17:41, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]