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Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform - The Cross City Campaign is a national network of school reform leaders from nine cities: Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia and Seattle. Parents, community members, teachers, principals, central office administrators, researchers, union officials and funders work together to improve public schools and education for urban young people. The organization provides a variety of resources for small schools....

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, School Size Reference List - This foundation devotes significant resources toward initiatives designed to create small, focused and personalized high schools, either through redesigning large, ineffective schools or starting new small schools from the ground up. The foundation’s Web site has put together a list of publications, reports and other resources addressing the creation of small schools....

The ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education & Small Schools - This ERIC clearinghouse provides a listing of books, digests, conferences and other materials addressing small schools....

The Small Schools Project - The Small Schools Project provides a range of services to new and emerging small schools, including: matching schools with coaches to help them design and implement reform efforts; creating Web-based materials to support the design and creation of small schools; and convening conferences, workshops and institutes for small-school leaders, teachers and community members....

Small Schools Workshop (SSW) - The Small Schools Workshop is a group of educators, organizers and researchers based in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The workshop collaborates with teachers, principals, parents and district leaders to create new, small and innovative learning communities in public schools, and to heighten recognition of the importance of school size to student learning....


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