Class-Size Reduction Sounds Like a Futile Waste of Resources
Bryan Hassel, co-founder of Public Impact and an education consultant in Chapel Hill, NC, makes a very straightforward and convincing case that the NC General Assembly made a big mistake when it passed legislation as part of the 2016 state budget to reduce class sizes statewide in Grades K through 3. You can read his full blog post at Education Next, but here’s a summary of his main arguments: Smaller class sizes mean that schools must hire significantly greater numbers of teachers each year. The finest teachers will reach fewer students each school year if their classes are reduced by 5 – 10 students. Such teachers will effectively be rendered less, well, effective. As a follow-on to his first argument, Hassel notes that larger and […]
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