Leanna Stiefel

In this project, the researchers aimed to explore potential relationships among the organization of primary schools, classroom configurations, and the academic achievement of the students who attend them. At the time of the study, little was known about how different ways of organizing schools impact students' academic achievement. At the end of this study, researchers intended to have new information on school organization characteristics, particularly grade span-a factor that has been larg...

This project examines the potential impacts of small high schools, compared to their larger counterparts, on high school outcomes for students overall and across subgroups of students. The analysis also examines characteristics of small and large schools to better understand the relationships between school size and outcomes, and disentangle the possible effect of size from that of other school characteristics associated with size. The small school reform stands out among high school refo...