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Mascall, Blair; Leung, Joannie – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
In a study of Ontario, Canada's province-wide Primary Class Size Reduction (PCS) Initiative, school districts' ability to direct and support schools was related to their experience with planning and monitoring, interest in innovation, and its human and fiscal resource base. Districts with greater "resource capacity" were able to…
Descriptors: Class Size, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Fiscal Capacity
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Bascia, Nina; Faubert, Brenton – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
This article reviews the literature base on class size reduction and proposes a new analytic framework that we believe provides practically useful explanations of how primary class size reduction works. It presents descriptions of classroom practice and grounded explanations for how class size reduction affects educational core activities by…
Descriptors: Class Size, Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Literature Reviews
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Flessa, Joseph J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
Previous work on policy implementation has often suggested that schools leave their "thumbprints" on policies received from above. During the implementation of Primary Class Size Reduction (PCS) Initiative in Ontario, Canada, however, school principals spoke with remarkable uniformity about the ways PCS affected their work. This article…
Descriptors: Class Size, Middle Management, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership