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Download full textWestEd, San Francisco, CA. – 1999
This policy brief examines the benefits and the challenges that accompany class-size reduction (CSR). It suggests that when designing CSR programs, states should carefully assess specific circumstances in their schools as they adopt or modify CSR efforts to avoid the unintended consequences that some programs have experienced. Some of the…
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship
Folger, John – 1989
The Tennessee legislature sponsored a study on the effects of class size (Project STAR). The design and measurement techniques of this study are discussed. The establishment of the basic elements of the design is examined, followed by the recruitment of schools and school systems to participate in the study. The process of setting up smaller…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Legislation, Primary Education
