Researcher perspectives on class size reduction

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 17, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-26

  Graue, Elizabeth ^a   Rauscher, Erica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Class size; Educational policy; Teacher student ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649516275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10682341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14507/epaa.v17n9.2009     Document Type: Article

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