Closing Schools Do Not Lead to Improved Student Performance
New York, NY – Council of School Supervisors & Administrators President Ernest Logan issued comments on the release of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools report, “High School Closures in New York City:””CSA takes the Research Alliance study at its word that it “cannot identify the precise mechanisms that explain closures impact or lack thereof.”
In fact, far from endorsing the wholesale closing of failing schools, the Alliance report grudgingly endorses long proven strategies, i.e., that smaller class sizes produce better student performances, that there are long term benefits to blending students of different academic ability in a single classroom as a way to “float all boats” and improve individual and overall student performance, and that there are beneficial effects to increasing the educational resources available to all schools.
