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Black, Susan – American School Board Journal, 1999
The Federal government will spend $1.2 billion in 1999-2000 on the Clinton administration's Class Size Reduction Initiative. Research on K-3 class-size reduction experiments (such as Tennessee's Project STAR) show positive achievement gains, particularly for minority and inner-city students. However, better teaching and learning must be a program…
Descriptors: Class Size, Federal Programs, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness
Young, I. Phillip – American School Board Journal, 2003
Structured interviews with 575 administrators and supervisors in 6 school districts finds 8 impediments to school board implementation of an effective merit pay system for these employees: Lack of knowledge, teacher heritage, supervisor's ability, supervisor's motivation, managerial prerogatives, amount of rewards, and type of rewards. Offers…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
