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Class Size and
Students At Risk

What is Known?
What is Next?

April 1998

Table of Contents

• Foreword

• About the Author

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction

• Research on the Academic Effects of Small Class Size
  • Overviews of Research on Small Classes
  • Statewide Class-size Studies: PRIME TIME and STAR

• Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Smaller Classes
  • Educational Production Functions
  • Cost Analyses
  • Further Work

• Instructional Practice and Student Behavior
  • Student Engagement
  • Engagement and Students At Risk
  • Teacher and Pupil Behavior in Small Classes
  • Other Outcomes
  • Summary

• Research Priorities
  • Issue 1: Short-Term and Long-Range Effects of Small Classes for Students At Risk
  • Issue 2: Teaching Practices to Maximize the Effectiveness of Small Classes
  • Issue 3: School and Classroom Conditions That Interact With Class Size
  • Issue 4: Small Classes and Positive "Long-Term Trajectories" for Students At Risk
  • Issue 5: Assessing the Costs of a Small-Class Initiative

• References

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