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Article: Small class size narrows black-white gap.
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- July 20, 2001
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WASHINGTON, Jul 20, 2001
The beneficial effects of small class size in the early grades dramatically reduce the black-white educational achievement gap, research shows.
Jeremy Finn, professor of education at the State University of New York at Buffalo, said in a phone interview Friday that from kindergarten to the third grade, the benefits of small classes were found to be from twice to three times as great for minority students or students attending inner-city schools than for white students in non-urban schools.
For example, he said, 14.3 percent more whites than blacks passed first-grade reading mastery tests in full-sized classes, but in ...