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Peer reviewedRitter, Gary W.; Boruch, Robert F. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1999
Examines the origins of Tennessee's Project Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) and explores what it was about Tennessee in the mid-1980s that fostered the development of this experimental approach to class size. Highlights the connection between the research world and the political world that resulted in the STAR project. (SLD)
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational History, Educational Research, Elementary Education
