Does Class Size Matter? � The Education Supply Playground

Does Class Size Matter? � The Education Supply Playground

Does Class Size Matter?

September 2, 2010 by nssea

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 b