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Ogawa, Miku – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2021
This study aims to understand the role of private secondary schools in rural Kenya under the Free Secondary Education Policy. Data were collected from four private schools over two months in 2018 and 2019. All the schools had experienced instability due to low enrolment, particularly after the policy was implemented in 2018. The decline in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Secondary Schools, School Role
Filges, Trine; Sonne-Schmidt, Christoffer Scavenius; Nielsen, Bjørn Christian Viinholt – Campbell Collaboration, 2018
Increasing class size is one of the key variables that policy makers can use to control spending on education. But the consensus among many education researchers is that smaller classes are effective in improving student achievement. This view has led to a policy of class size reductions in a number of US states, the UK, and the Netherlands. This…
Descriptors: Class Size, Small Classes, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
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Toro, Lisset V.; Pinza, Eliana I.; Vargas, Alba B.; Zuniga, Alexandra; Paredes, Fabian M.; Espinosa, Franklin O. – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2019
The English language teaching learning process in small classes may turn challenging for some teachers but also rewarding because of the results obtained. In our country, the majority of high schools have a big number of students in the English courses and this may be one of the causes for language low achievement. For this reason, this study is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Small Classes
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Cohen-Zada, Danny; Gradstein, Mark; Reuven, Ehud – Economics of Education Review, 2013
The allocation of educational resources to students of different socio-economic backgrounds has important policy implications since it affects individual educational outcomes as well as the future distribution of human capital. In this paper, we present a theoretical model showing that local school administrators have an incentive to allocate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students
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Handal, Boris; Watson, Kevin; Maher, Marguerite – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
This paper explores mathematics teachers' perceptions about class size and the impact class size has on teaching and learning in secondary mathematics classrooms. It seeks to understand teachers' views about optimal class sizes and their thoughts about the education variables that influence these views. The paper draws on questionnaire responses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Harfitt, Gary James – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
This study focuses on how two teachers working in reduced-size secondary classes of the same grade adapted their pedagogy as a result of a brokered dialogue between myself as researcher and 43 grade 10 students from the teachers' classes. Research was carried out over the course of one academic year. First, students' perspectives on studying in a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Class Size
Kilmer, Theresa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of alternative middle school programs utilizing a longitudinal, mixed methods design and was driven by research questions which analyzed trends in attendance, discipline, and Standard of Learning test pass rates in history and science for 8 th, 9th, and 10th grade. It also examined student…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Nontraditional Education, School Effectiveness
McGaughey, Trisha A.; Wade, Julie H.; Zhao, Huafang – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2013
This brief describes an evaluation of academic intervention supports available to high school students in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) during the 2012-2013 school year. A website review identified information about academic supports available to students or parents within each high school's web pages. A survey of school staff gathered…
Descriptors: Counties, Academic Support Services, At Risk Students, High School Students
Seidel, Sam – Jobs For the Future, 2013
North Queens Community High School serves approximately 200 students, 16-20 years old, as they strive to reach their personal and academic goals. All students at North Queens have previously been enrolled in high school elsewhere and are over-age and undercredited. Small class sizes, student-centered support, and an accelerated credit acquisition…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Success, College Readiness, College Preparation
Finn, Jeremy D. – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2010
In 2002, voters in Florida approved a constitutional amendment limiting class sizes in public schools to 18 students in the elementary grades, 22 students in middle grades, and 25 in high school grades. Analyzing statewide achievement data for school districts from 2004-2006 and for schools in 2007, this study purports to find that "mandated…
Descriptors: Class Size, Small Classes, Program Effectiveness, Educational Policy