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Peer reviewedBurns, Robert B.; Mason, DeWayne A. – American Journal of Education, 1995
Describes how principals assign teachers and students to single-grade and combination classes. Presents research showing unexpected constraints that fundamentally changed the basis of class assignment and, consequently, the nature of classroom compositions. A case is made that multitrack calendars reduce principals' flexibility to make purposive…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Schools, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Instructional Program Divisions
