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Smaller Class Sizes Come in Small Steps

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:16:04 EDT

An eight-year, $139 million investment in class-size reduction in Montgomery County schools has not yielded substantially smaller classes across the board, according to a new report from a county oversight group. But the initiative has succeeded in providing the smallest classes to the youngest

Some Area Schools Plan Bigger Classes

Tue, 06 May 2008 22:44:44 EDT

Under heavy pressure to contain spending, some Washington area school systems are planning to increase class size in the coming year to save money on teachers.

Larger classes not the answer

Sun, 04 May 2008 23:21:29 EDT

Only an academic, safe in his book-lined office on La Trobe University's green campus, could argue that class sizes in schools should be enlarged almost 50 per cent and that teachers should confront 35 hormone-charged and often obstreperous teenagers for six or more hours every day.

Is smaller really better?

Sun, 04 May 2008 01:13:33 EDT

Budget crunch expected to increase class sizes in primary grades
Candace Glazer is a kindergarten teacher, but you also could say she's a conductor who leads 20 5-year-olds.

B.C. parents group abandons teachers union on class sizes

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:22:46 EDT

They defeated a resolution during the annual general meeting of the B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils that suggested the union could be a powerful ally in the push for better learning conditions for students.

FAILING TO 'CUT' CLASS $IZE STILL MATTERS

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:56:48 EDT

By YOAV GONEN, Education Reporter
Nearly half the city middle and elementary schools that received state money earmarked for class-size reduction failed to shrink classes this academic year, according to a new report.

Schools should be free to have big classes

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:49:48 EDT

The National Union of Teachers is threatening to strike unless the Government introduces a legal maximum class size of 20. Meanwhile, schools minister Jim Knight was booed at another teaching union conference when he suggested that larger classes might sometimes be acceptable

Class sizes 'a national scandal'

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:51:03 EDT

Teachers say that excessive class sizes entrench social inequality and warn they may strike over the issue. The union is calling for a maximum class size of 20 by 2020 and is threatening rolling industrial action.

LOW-INCOME STUDENTS: Smaller Classes Don't Close Learning Gap, Study Finds

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:59:32 EDT

By Jay Mathews
For 20 years, a large study of class size in Tennessee, known as Project STAR, has raised hopes that reducing the number of children in inner-city classrooms to 17 or fewer would yield significant increases in achievement.

Lawmakers could tweak class-size law

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:03:56 EDT

TALLAHASSEE — Joy Hettel remembers looking at a roster of 45 students one August and wondering where she'd put all those bodies in her Lake Worth Middle classroom. Some years, she'd station one student behind her desk and set up another on the side.