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Bain, Helen Pate; Achilles, C. M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
The education reform movement has fostered renewed interest in class size. Tennessee and Indiana experiments with smaller class size in primary grades have yielded improved student behavior and achievement scores. Tennessee's new Student-Teacher Achievement Ratio Project (STAR) is a longitudinal study furthering research on small class benefits.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Class Size, Instructional Innovation, Primary Education
