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Download full textLee, Valerie E. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
I take issue with several points in the Howleys' reanalysis (Vol. 12 No. 52 of this journal) of "High School Size: Which Works Best and for Whom?" (Lee & Smith, 1997). That the original sample of NELS schools might have underrepresented small rural public schools would not bias results, as they claim. Their assertion that our conclusions about an…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, School Size, High Schools
