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Peer reviewedMcNamara, James F. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1998
Serious interest in reducing class size often begins with a key question: What available evidence would support the higher implementation costs? This article discusses positive results of a longitudinal statewide study in Tennessee (Project STAR) and uses findings to specify four guidelines for practitioners and policy makers. Evaluation plans…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education, Longitudinal Studies
Schwartz, Joel – 1997
The California Legislature and Governor created the Class Size Reduction (CSR) program as part of the 1996-97 Budget Act. The goal of the program is to increase student achievement by reducing average class sizes from 28.6 students to no more than 20 students in up to 3 grades. The 1997-98 governor's budget proposes expansion of the CSR program to…
Descriptors: Class Size, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education, Expenditure per Student
Download full textAchilles, C. M. – 1998
A short overview of an experimental evaluation of lower teacher-pupil ratios is presented in this report. The research under review is the Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) project. This longitudinal project was conducted in Tennessee and was designed to prove to state legislators the efficacy of smaller class sizes. For STAR, evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis
Detroit Board of Education, MI. – 1971
The purpose of the Neighborhood Education Center (NEC) Project, funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is to significantly raise academic achievement in the areas of language arts and computational skills. The NEC encompasses four elementary schools in Region 8 of the Detroit Public Schools system. This region…
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Centers, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 2000
This report discusses the activities and outcomes of Special Instructional Assistance (SIA) an early intervention, prevention program designed to help Georgia students with identified developmental delays overcome the effects of those delays on academic achievement. The central tenet of the program is to provide more individualized instruction to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developmental Delays, Early Intervention, Elementary Education
Drane, Jeanne G., Ed. – 1972
This document includes summaries of the annual evaluations of the five major programs in St. Louis funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. The general purposes of the Reading Improvement Teams program were to improve the reading skills of the children with the greatest reading problems in the Title I schools and to…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Education, Federal Programs
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
The More Effective Schools project, an effort to make the schools better able to solve the basic reading and arithmetic problems of disadvantaged children, brought about a reorganization and expansion of the teaching and administrative staffs of elementary schools in New York City. The combined black and Puerto Rican population in the project…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
