Class size reduction: From promise to practice

Educational Leadership

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 32-35

  Halbach, Anke ^b   Ehrle, Karen ^b   Zahorik, John ^b   Molnar, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NONE

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