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National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum and Assessment

Reducing Class Size

What Do We Know?

Ivor Pritchard
National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum and Assessment

Office of Educational Research and Improvement
U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Education
Richard W. Riley
Secretary

Office of Educational Research and Improvement
C. Kent McGuire
Assistant Secretary

National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment
Joseph C. Conaty
Director

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Cynthia Hearn Dorfman
Director

Revised March 1999

This paper is a revision and full reprint of Reducing Class Size: What Do We Know? (SAI 98-3027). The paper is intended to promote the exchange of ideas between researchers and policymakers. The views expressed in it do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education.

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