Editor’s Note: This version was published in 2004. An updated version is available from 2011. In recent years, reducing class size has gained increased prominence as a school-improvement strategy.
In their commentary “It’s Not All About Class Size” (The Chronicle, January 30), Stephen J. Ceci and Spyros Konstantopoulos argue that reducing class size increases test-score variability in the ...
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A union-friendly education law is saddling the Big Apple with billions in additional costs — but Mayor Zohran Mamdani won’t ...
Maybe your first grader came home excited to tell you about all twenty-seven of her new classmates and you freaked. Maybe you’re considering shelling out for that fancy Montessori school that promises ...
On June 3, in a tremendous victory for New York City children, the Legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that would obligate the city’s public schools to lower class size. This bill was a long time ...
Editor's Note: A version of this story aired on KPCC. Listen to it here. Science teacher Michelle Levin has only 33 kids in each of her classes — which makes her fortunate. That’s not because a class ...
“Small class size” has long been a hallmark of Bethel University. At Bethel, the average undergraduate class size is 19.42, with 98.6% of classes holding less than 50 students. It’s always been ...
A bill to make class sizes a mandatory topic of bargaining between Oregon school districts and their local teacher unions appears poised to clear a key hurdle in Salem this week. Should the concept ...
As a strike looms, the Chicago Teachers Union held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to call attention to one of its biggest issues: a demand for lower class sizes. The press conference was held ...
Los Angeles science teacher Michele Levin knows she caught a break: She only has about 33 students in each of her classes at Daniel Webster Middle School — pretty small, by district standards. In most ...
Only very large reductions in class size—cuts on the order of seven to 10 students per class—are likely to lead to significant long-term effects on student achievement, a new research synthesis says.
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