Chicago study

On the heels of my story yesterday on findings from New York City's efforts to replace big impersonal high schools with smaller, more intimate ones comes word of this report on a similar initiative in Chicago.

Researchers from the Consortium on Chicago School Research compared educational outcomes for students in 17 nonselective small high schools that the district created between 2002 and 2004 with outcomes for similar students enrolled in the system's comprehensive high schools...