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Peer reviewedMitchell, Douglas E.; Mitchell, Ross E. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2003
Develops a political economy framework for mapping and interpreting the competing purposes of schooling by examining five paradoxes in national policy debates addressing class size in public elementary schools. The framework highlights answers to the question: What kind of an economic good is education? (education as a service industry, producer…
Descriptors: Class Size, Economic Factors, Educational Policy, Elementary Education
