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From Large to Small:
Strategies for Personalizing the High School

In communities across the United States, the conversion of large high schools into small, focused learning environments is gaining currency as an education reform strategy. FROM LARGE TO SMALL, by JFF’s Lili Allen and Adria Steinberg, offers concrete guideposts to leaders of comprehensive high schools who seek to implement a small schools strategy. FROM LARGE TO SMALL draws on lessons emerging in schools and districts that have begun this difficult work, and it also turns to a less traditional source of lessons: small schools, alternative schools, and youth development programs--often on the margins of the school system--that blend cognitive challenge with the caring and connections associated with positive youth development. FROM LARGE TO SMALL is a joint publication of JFF, Carnegie Corporation of New York (www.carnegie.org), and the Northeast and Islands Regional Laboratory at Brown University (www.lab.brown.edu).

To download FROM LARGE TO SMALL, go to:
http://www.jff.org/jff/kc/library/0156

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