EJ481228
EA529171
Title: Organizing Schools into Small Units: Alternatives to Homogeneous
Grouping.Author(s): Oxley, Diana
Source: Phi Delta Kappan, v75 n7 p521-26 Mar 1994
Publication Date: 1994
ISSN: 0031-7217
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Evaluative (142)
Journal Announcement: CIJAUG1994
Large school
size adversely affects attendance, school climate, student involvement.
Dividing large schools into small units creates a learning and teaching
context that is more stable, intimate, supportive, interdisciplinary.
Kohn-Holweide, a comprehensive German secondary school, groups all
students at a given grade level with the same teachers for six years.
William Penn High School employs a vertical small-unit plan. (MLH)
Descriptors: *Decentralization; Educational Quality; Foreign Countries;
*Heterogeneous Grouping; *House Plan; Interdisciplinary Approach;
Low Achievement; *Mainstreaming; School Organization; *School Size;
Secondary Education
Identifiers: *Germany (Bavaria); *William Penn High School PA
