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Building on many years' research on class size and student outcomes in the early primary grades of America's public schools, the author advocates class size reduction for increased student achievement on the early years.

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Achilles undertakes three basic tasks: he presents the considerable research done in the US on class size and student outcomes, tracks educators' and public policy makers' interest in implementing these research findings, and analyzes the case for school improvement through use of small classes. Achilles never places his position above detractors' and thus encourages the reader's individual decision making. -- P. M. Socoski, University of Florida CHOICE, 2000

Achilles undertakes three basic tasks: he presents the considerable research done in the US on class size and student outcomes, tracks educators, and public policy makers, interest in implementing these research findings, and analyzes the case for school improvement through use of small classes. Achilles never places his position above detractors, and thus encourages the reader,s individual decision making. -- P. M. Socoski, University of Florida CHOICE, 2000

Achilles undertakes three basic tasks: he presents the considerable research done in the US on class size and student outcomes, tracks educators' and public policy makers' interest in implementing these research findings, and analyzes the case for school improvement through use of small classes. Achilles never places his position above detractors' and thus encourages the reader's individual decision making. -- P. M. Socoski, University of Florida CHOICE, 2000

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Charles M. Achilles is Professor of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Eastern Michigan University (EMU). He received his doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Rochester and worked briefly at the (former) U.S. Office of Education, for 21 years at the Bureau of Educational Research and Service, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for 6 years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and since 1994 at EMU.  

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