Daniel L Duke, Thomas DeRoberto, and Sarah Trautvetter (Univ. of Virginia)
“Reducing the Negative Effects of Large Schools”
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED507894.pdf
“Why create small schools? Above all, in to address four specific problems: the need for small, intimate learning communities where students are well known and can be pushed and encouraged by adults who care for and about them; to reduce the isolation that too often seeds alienation and violence; to reduce devastating discrepancies in the achievement gap that plague poorer children and, too often, children of color; and to encourage teachers to use their intelligence and experience to help students succeed.”