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ERIC Number: EJ592918
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
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Schnitzer, Denise K.; Caprio, Michael J.
Educational Leadership, v57 n1 p46-48 Sep 1999
The citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, challenged educators to preserve a large, comprehensive high school while implementing a small-school concept. Staff responded by establishing four academies within the larger school that conveyed the feeling of smallness. Administration is decentralized, and special classes and computer labs are held outside the academies. (MLH)
Descriptors: Decentralization, High Schools, House Plan, School Organization, Small Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Virginia (Norfolk)