Wealthy Amateur Advises Decision-makers about Class Size
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Here is Bill Gates’ latest advice to policymakers:
” [G]et more students in front of top teachers by identifying the top 25 percent of teachers and asking them to take on four or five more students. Part of the savings could be then used to give the top teachers a raise…. The rest of the savings could go toward improving teacher support and evaluation systems, to help more teachers become great.”
If a parent or even a superintendent went to a district school board and recommended what Bill Gates did, they would call for an immediate psychological evaluation over his suggesting larger, not smaller, classes. In linking