A NYT editorial in yesterday's paper about the success of the small schools in NYC, about which I wrote recently (http://edreform.blogspot.com/2010/07/nyc-success-suggests-better-fix-for.html):

School reform advocates are rightly excited about a persuasive new study showing that New York City's small, specialized high schools are outperforming larger, more traditional schools, significantly narrowing the graduation-rate gap that currently exists between white and minority students across the city.

The study validates the small school policies of the Bloomberg administration, which has shut down 20 large, failing high schools and replaced them with more than 200 small schools, about half of which were the focus of this study.

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NYT editorial, June 30, 2010

Small Schools

www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/opinion/01thu3.html