[etni] Fwd: re: Education experts disagree on importance of school class size
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From: sara g <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Education experts disagree on importance of school class size
but they are talking about "big" classes of 23, not of 40....
Margie wrote:
> Education experts disagree on importance of school class size
> By Kevin Simpson - The Denver Post
>
> When Greg Sumlin looks at the incoming kindergarten class at East
> Elementary School in Littleton, he sees a group of English learners who
> need immediate, intensive instruction — in small classes where teachers can
> give them individual attention.
>
> Then he looks at this year's first-graders, calculates his staffing and
> crunches the numbers: although these kids also have high needs, three
> classrooms of 16 or 17 will have to be shoe-horned into two second-grade
> classes of 23.
>
> It's a vexing academic sudoku that principals tackle — and teachers must
> adapt to — as schools try to line up budgets, staff and attendance
> projections in pursuit of an elusive educational sweet spot: effective
> class size.
>
> * To read the whole article, go to -
> http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20720013/education-experts-disagree-importance-school-class-size
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