Class Size

Arbitrator: District Teachers Overworked, Underpaid

Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Class Size, Video, Budget Cuts, Portland Teachers, Portland Oregon, Oregon Schools, Teachers, Portland Public Schools, School Budget Cuts, Portland, Portland Schools, Education News

Portland Public Schools officials overstepped in forcing district teachers to take on more classes and students, and owe affected educators a total $1...

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Coal for Christmas

Jack Jennings | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Urban Schools, Teachers, Center on Education Policy, Education Spending, Class Size, Teacher Layoffs, TUDA, No Child Left Behind, Urban Schools Testing, Urban School Test Scores, Education Funding, Education News
Jack Jennings

With class sizes increasing due to teacher layoffs, and the dismissal of reading specialists, it is not far-fetched to say that learning is being jeopardized by less money being spent on education.

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Education Reform: Where's the Debate?

Kenzo Shibata | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Class Size, Chicago Public Schools, Charter Schools, Ctu, Libraries, Education, Public Health, Uno, Schools, Education Reform, Chicago Teachers Union, Cps, Waiting for Superman, Chicago Public Libraries, Education News
Kenzo Shibata

Schools do not operate in a vacuum. Poverty has devastating effects on a child's social and emotional development. For our poorest students, just getting to school can be a challenge.

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All Classes Great and Small

Ellen Siminoff | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Budgets Cuts, Class Size, Education, Higher Education, Public Education, Education News
Ellen Siminoff

While we strive to serve students with more personal attention and a comfortable learning atmosphere, it is important to recognize that not everyone learns optimally in the same way. Some subjects may be more effectively taught in a larger setting.

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VIDEO: How Do Class Sizes Affect Student Success?

| Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Class Size, Star Study, Video, Schooltube, High School Journalism, Public High Schools, Central High School, High School News, High School News

According to the Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) study, students placed in small classes of 15 students, compared to students placed in large...

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My Class Size Matters

Larry Strauss | Posted 12.21.2011

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Larry Strauss

Class size matters, and it matters for all of us, except, perhaps for the very least effective teachers, those who are either completely incompetent or who have cynically stopped trying.

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Joy Resmovits

Tradeoffs: Reduce Class Sizes Or Increase Teacher Pay?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Education News, Michael Petrilli, Class Size, Education, Arne Duncan, Randi Weingarten, Class Size Matters, New York City Teachers, Standardized Tests, Tests, Education Reform, Las Vegas Teachers, Education News

NEW YORK -- Every morning at PS 148 in East Elmhurst, Queens, teacher Monique Bertolotti greets her 27 third graders, who speak English as a second la...

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Obama's Speech to Congress: So Why Am I Skeptical?

Leonie Haimson | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Layoffs, Class Size, Obama Speech, Arne Duncan, Rick Hess, Bill Gates, Education Funding, Barack Obama, Education News
Leonie Haimson

We've witnessed several years of this administration generally unconcerned about rising class sizes and teacher layoffs. The truth is that for the past two years, their priorities have pointed in an entirely different direction.

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Joy Resmovits

Rick Perry 'Full Of Contradictions' Say Texas Teachers

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Class Size, Federalism, Corrections, Elections 2012, Texas Teachers, Ed-Lection 2012, Rick Perry, Education Funding Cuts, Texas Education Record, Rick Perry 2012, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Lewisville Teachers, Teachers, School Lunch, Education News

Texas students and teachers went back to school Monday, 10 days after the man they cite as the cause of their schools' funding-related woes announced ...

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Does Class Size Really Matter?

Salon | Peg Tyre | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Classes, Public Schools, Class Size, Education, Schools, Schools Class Size, Education News

This article was adapted from the new book "The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve," available Aug. 16 from Henr...

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Why Do Politicians Blow Up When Asked Where They Send Their Own Kids to School?

Leonie Haimson | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Testing, Gov. Chris Christie, Class Size, Mike Winerip, Patrick Sullivan, Rahm Emanuel, Education News
Leonie Haimson

Rahm Emanuel, the new Mayor of Chicago, walks out of an NBC interview when asked when asked what school he intends to enroll his children in. He intones: "My children are not an instrument of me being mayor." But everyone else's children are.

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Why Class Size Matters

David Kirp | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Class Size, Teaching Methods, Teaching, Learning, Pedagogy, Education News
David Kirp

Radically different approaches to teaching and learning change the equation. They demonstrate why small classes matter.

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Joy Resmovits

How It Feels To Be A Teacher In Wisconsin On June 27

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Education News, Class Size, Collective Bargaining, Wisconsin, Education, Madison, Collective Bargaining Rights, Wisconsin Education, Illinois Education Reform, Scott Walker, Wisconsin 14, Wisconsin Education Reform, Education Reform, Teacher Activism, Madison Protests, Education News

Margarette Allen was never ashamed to be a teacher. She still isn't -- for the most part. "I'm proud of what I do," the Manitowoc, Wis., high scho...

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The Top 10 Universities With The Highest Percentage Of Small Classes

Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Class-Size-Reduction, Class Size, Small Classes, Colleges With Smallest Classes, 10 Colleges With the Smallest Class Sizw, College News

Yesterday, US News and World Report released their list of universities with the highest percentage of small classes. Unwieldy, research-centric univ...

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Class Bias, Class Size and Online Learning

Leonie Haimson | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Fordham Institute, Brookings Institute, Class Size, Bill Gates, Chester Finn, Center for American Progress, Education News
Leonie Haimson

It seems that the D.C. think tanks are absolutely dedicated towards further encouraging this trend and destroying any efforts to retain equitable class sizes in our public schools.

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Teachers, We Honor and Respect You!

Leonie Haimson | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Class Size, Arne Duncan, John Ewing, Teacher Appreciation Week, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Sabrian Shupe Stevens, Education News
Leonie Haimson

It's teacher appreciation week; and in a letter in EdWeek published Monday, Arne Duncan attempts to convince teachers that his policies actually reflect respect towards their profession.

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Obama and Duncan on South Korea: What Can They Be Thinking?

Leonie Haimson | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Testing, Tutoring, Class Size, Arne Duncan, Cram Schools, South Korea, Barack Obama, Education News
Leonie Haimson

Recently, South Korea's former minister of education warned Americans against praising the "educational zeal" of South Korean parents, saying that Korean schools had become too test-centered.

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A New Approach to Holding Charter Schools Accountable

Seth Andrew | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Democracy Prep, Joel Klein, Harlem Prep, Charter Schools, State University of New York, Class Size, Teacher Seniority, Harlem Day Charter School, School Accountability, Education Reform, New York News
Seth Andrew

On paper, Harlem Day Charter School should be a resounding success. It spends more per pupil than most suburban schools. Class size is small. Yet student achievement is unacceptably low.

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Letter to the Lawrence, Kan. School Board

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Lawrence Kansas, Teacher Retention, Class Size, Teacher Attrition, Student Achievement, Parental Involvement, Education News
Leonie Haimson

Reducing class size, particularly in the early grades, is one of the very few educational strategies proven to increase learning and narrow the achievement gap.

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Lessons From Finland: Teachers And Unions In The World's Best Education System

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Class Size, Teacher Evaluations, Henna Virkkunen, Teachers Union, Finland, Pisa, Teachers, Accountability, Oecd, Finland Education, Education Reform, Education News
Justin Snider

On March 16, I sat down with Finland's Minister of Education, Ms. Henna Virkkunen, for a discussion of the Finnish educational system -- and what less...

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In the World of Corporate Ed Reform, Failure Is no Impediment to Success

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Equity Project, Class Size, Justin Snider, Test Scores, Zeke Vanderhoek, 60 Minutes, Education News
Leonie Haimson

Zeke Vanderhoek gets more publicity for failure than most people do for success.

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Money Talks -- Too Much!

Steve Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Class Size, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Met, Value-Added, A. Alfred Taubman, Teacher Assessment, Education News
Steve Nelson

The Gates group's approach to educational reform is nearly guaranteed to kill whatever good remnants of teaching and learning remain in America's beleaguered schools.

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Mayor Bloomberg Booed and Excoriated for his Proposed Teacher Layoffs and Attacks on Seniority Protections

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Layoffs, Class Size, Booed, Alan Krueger, Mayor Bloomberg, Lifo, St. Patrick's Day Parade, Seniority, New York, Education News
Leonie Haimson

Mayor Bloomberg was roundly booed at the annual Queens St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday for threatening to lay off of over 4,000 teachers and his attack on their seniority rights.

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NY Teacher Layoffs May Increase Class Sizes

AP | By SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher Layoffs, Class Size, Tea Party, New York, Classroom, Education News

NEW YORK -- As Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to take more than 6,000 teachers off the payroll to help balance a strained budget, some parent advocates...

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Music Teacher With 65-Student Classes: Gates, Guggenheim Have It Wrong

Education Week | Nancy Flanagan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Class Size, Waiting for Superman, Bill Gates, Education Reform, Education News

Take a look at this brief clip of Davis Guggenheim, speaking to what must have been one of hundreds of audiences about the heartbreaking failure of pu...

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