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Download full textGilbert, Sid – CSSHE Professional File, 1995
This paper reviews the research on the effects of class size on educational quality in higher education, and discusses the characteristics of the students and kinds of course organization that facilitate effective large-class teaching. It notes that while early research found that class size mattered, newer studies have shown that factors other…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Faculty, College Instruction, Competence
Matthews, Dorothy, Ed. – Illinois English Bulletin, 1984
Containing 13 essays selected from teachers at many levels and from specialists in various branches of the English profession, this journal issue provides English teachers with the opportunity to answer the many charges currently being levelled at education. The opening article highlights the issues raised by the report of the National Commission…
Descriptors: Censorship, Class Size, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
Wyman, Wendy – Progress of Education Reform, 1999-2001, 2001
This issue is the last in a three-part series on teaching quality. The first examined the effectiveness of various approaches to recruiting, educating, and inducting teachers. This report discusses the school environment and role of teachers' working conditions in attracting and retaining good teachers, noting several disparate factors that…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Class Size, Educational Change, Educational Quality
Viadero, Debra; Johnston, Robert C. – Education Week, 2000
This second in a four-part series on why academic achievement gaps exist notes that standard explanations for why minority students trail behind non-Hispanic whites are not good enough, suggesting that no single explanation for the gap exists, but instead a multitude of factors are influential. Poverty, though not the single most important cause,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Black Students, Class Size
Graves-Desai, Kelly, Ed.; Maloney, Karen, Ed. – Harvard Education Letter, 1997
This document is comprised of volume 13 of the Harvard Education Letter, published bimonthly and addressing current issues in elementary and secondary education. Articles in the six issues of this volume include: (1) January-February --"Making Detracking Work" (Lynn and Wheelock), "Developing a Culture of High Expectations for…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Class Size, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Hartman, Bonnie, Ed.; Rohland, Mark, Ed. – CEIC Review, 2001
These three volumes contain articles related to (1) improving educational productivity (lessons from economics); (2) school-to-work (STW); and (3) reduced class size, offering recommendations from national invitational conferences. Topics include making schools work; tax revolts and school performance; market pressure and the impact on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Academies, Class Size, Economic Factors
