Published: February 28, 2007

The Problem with Class-Size Reduction

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If you ever want to start a near brawl in the teacher workroom nearest you, walk in and casually drop the following line:

There is no question that single-minded efforts to reduce class sizes are flawed and are limiting how successful schools can be.