If you google "school size" effectiveness you get 43,000 hits.
I think; Think New Mexico might be on to something.
The Journal reports that the APS is being urged to stop building mega schools. link sub req
"The single best thing we can do is stop building theseI would like to know why the leadership of the APS is
jumbo-sized high schools which breed alienation and dropouts," said Fred Nathan,
Executive Director of Think New Mexico.
still building mega-high schools; Volcano Vista and
Atrisco Heritage Academy.
If a lot of people have known for a long time that
small schools are better than large schools, and that
small schools are actually cheaper per unit,
why is the leadership of the APS still building mega high schools?
Unfortunately, Winston Brooks chooses not to sit for questions.
Winston Brooks refuses still, to name a time, a day, and
a place where he will sit and simply tell the truth.
It is apparently none of your business
how the leadership of the APS spends your tax dollars.
They're wrong, ... right? ??
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APS has broken high schools into sub-academies, right? They already know that smaller schools are better. They are trying to create small learning communities inside the big high school behemeoths.
Here is me playing devil's advocate, Mad Magazine Style:
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Fake and Spurious Response by APS to Ched's post:
"Although modular buildings and smaller schools are both cheaper and more educationally effective, we can only get steep construction discounts if the project is really big. Kickbacks you know.
We can't build elementary size schools all over the city that could be used as schools or offices as needed, would be designed to be modular for both educational and office space needs - but we don't have the land for it. Who sold that land..., oh yeah, us!"
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You know that would be sweet? A high school, middle school and elementary/KG and an office space all clustered together,sharing a common central parking lot. As enrollment ebbed and flowed, the buildings could be converted to office space for workers, or even rented out to stakeholders like the Red Cross, Certified After-School Care Businesses, or whoever has cross-cutting interests with APS kids and employees. Sub-stations for cops and fire, or even city workers and county workers who have job concerns mainly at schools, they could be given office space as well. Anything that benefited APS kids getting smarter and being safer, getting the best service that our government can provide.
If the population dries up? no more kids? Modularality makes it possible to leaase it or turn it all into offices, then reassess the need for schools when the leases are up.
And you repeat this in every new neighborhood, and slowly buy land to do it in land-locked ones. This way, no one school ever gets more resources, true educational modularity with equality, no elite schools and poor schools, everyone would have the same chance to succeed after graduation.
Educational Modular Cells, able to expand or contract at will, able to take on symbiotic business partnerships with other branches of governement and the private sector tht sharre the common goal of smart, safe kids.
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