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Jackson, Erika; Page, Marianne E. – Economics of Education Review, 2013
Most evaluations of education policies focus on their mean impacts; when distributional effects are investigated it is usually by comparing mean impacts across demographic subgroups. We argue that such estimates may overlook important treatment effect heterogeneity; in order to appreciate the full extent of a policy's distributional impacts one…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Small Classes, Academic Achievement
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
Sicoli, Aldo – 2000
This fastback document explores ways to develop alternative high-school programs to help at-risk students. It focuses on the "school within a school" model where the emphasis is on a caring school climate and smaller class sizes. The booklet offers a step-by-step guide for developing an alternative school, which begins with determining the need…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Methods, Educational Policy, High Schools
McCluskey, Neal – 2002
"Smaller is better" is often the mantra of school leaders with regard to class size, while the benefits of smaller schools are ignored. Benefits of small classes seem obvious--teachers with fewer students could devote more time to each student. Conducted in 1985-89, Tennessee's Project STAR (Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio) found that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Jepsen, Christopher; Rivkin, Steven – Public Policy Institute of California, 2002
Intuitively, class size reduction is a good idea. Parents support it because it means that their children will receive more individual attention from teachers. Teachers like it for the same reason and also because it creates a more manageable workload. It is generally assumed that the fewer students in a class, the better they will learn and the…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Urban Schools, Achievement Tests, Teacher Shortage