Do low-achieving students benefit more from small classes? Evidence from the Tennessee class size experiment

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 201-217

  Nye, Barbara ^a   Hedges, Larry V ^b   Konstantopoulos, Spyros ^b  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

At risk students; Class size; Education production function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036770326     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/01623737024003201     Document Type: Article

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