For years, school experts have always asserted that students in smaller classes do better academically because teachers can pay more attention to each child.
Educators, who champion the concept, based their believes off of a 1985 study that compared academic achievement in small classes of 13 to 17 low-income students with that of students in classes that had 22 to 25 students. The experiment found modest but lasting gains for impoverished African-American students in the much smaller classes in kindergarten and first grade.
However, according to a USA Today article, some school districts are beginning to question the success of smaller class sizes.
“The research doesn’t show that you get significantly different student outcomes when you go from a class of 25 to a class of 30,” B. Teri Burns, Natomas Unified School District school board president, told USA Today. Read the entire article.
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