Size isn't everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen a noticeable counter trend toward smaller schools.

And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.

Ten years ago, when the first Newsweek list based on college-level test participation was published, only three of the top 100 schools had graduating Classes smaller than 100 students.

But not all schools show advances after downsizing, and it remains to be seen whether smaller schools will be a cure-all solution.

Some large schools have split up into smaller ones.

So there used to be transport problems, now though there are new train links and better roads, but it may be that some smaller towns inland remain not very well connected, is that OK?

All girls schools tend to be smaller than coeducational schools, which means teachers would be able to tailor the materials to girl students' personal learning styles and interest.

As smaller cities copy the model of these "24-hour cities", more affordable versions of these places will be created.

Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.

In between the midday meal and a late, smaller dinner came a small snack.

Later, at 5 or 6, you'd have a smaller supper.

The data will certainly fuel the ongoing debate over whether physical education classes should be cut as schools struggle to survive on smaller budgets.

The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes.

The researchers, led by Martin Reimann, carried out a series of experiments to see if people would choose a smaller meal if it was paired with a non-food item.

But in order to take advantage of these common-sense solutions, Americans will have to put aside their own attachment to the idea of smaller government and less regulation.

They give up the idea of smaller government and less regulation

The larger the trade deficit, the smaller the GDP.

Private colleges and universities generally do better, partly because they offer smaller classes and more personal attention.

their classes are generally smaller

Act Two is similar except that the yellow cube is smaller.

"If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

As conservation areas become smaller, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, which are expanding to the boundaries of these protected areas.

Because of their smaller size, most keep hours that allow people to enjoy themselves, then have some quiet after midnight, as opposed to large major cities like New York, where the buzz of activity is ongoing.

first of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.

It's just a much smaller market today.

Maybe you could gather capital from other sources, smaller loans from more lenders?

Mediterranean cooking uses smaller amounts of saturated fat and higher amounts of unsaturated fat, mostly in the form of olive oil.

So far, the main thing many large retailers have done in response to all this is to open online stores, so people will come to them directly rather than to Amazon and its smaller online rivals.

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

Then there were the face slimming rollers that were said to improve your blood circulation and make your face smaller.

Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.

with the rise of a new concept in urban planning that aims to make life easier and more convenient, however, increasing popularity for urban areas that caused the real estate pushes, in major cities like San Francisco or New York, has inspired a type of f