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How the Broad virus & Gates infection are hurting Kansas City kids « Parents Across America

How the Broad virus & Gates infection are hurting Kansas City kids « Parents Across America

How the Broad virus & Gates infection are hurting Kansas City kids

This was written by a Kansas City teacher who prefers to remain anonymous because she fears retaliation. There is no research, by the way, that indicates that paying teachers more will cause them to work harder; or be able to overcome the disadvantages to kids of being crammed into a large class. This contrasts with thevoluminous research on class size, which shows that class size reduction is one of the very few ways to narrow the achievement gap and one of only four reforms cited by the Institute of Education Sciences as proven to work through rigorous evidence.

As far as we know, none of the following information has yet been reported in the local Kansas City media or the national press:

Last week at a school board