Bloomberg Wants to Double Teacher Salaries--By Doubling Class Size
In the early 19th Century, an efficiency zealot before his time named Joseph Lancaster came up with a monitorial system for schooling the urban poor, wherein a single teacher served as overseer for classes as large as 500 students. With what might be thought of as a kind early Gingrich-style system using student assistants, these monitors checked and graded student work before passing the grades to a teacher at the front of the converted warehouse.
Sounds like Prince Mike might be dusting off some long-discarded ideas in order to further slash public services
