An open letter to President Obama about Romney’s class size comments
If you want to send your own message to Obama about class size, you can do it
via his campaign website.Dear President Obama:
Yesterday, Mitt Romney went to visit a charter school in Philadelphia and got real push back from teachers when he said class size doesn’t matter. A video of their remarks is below. As a principal of a charter school pointed out,
“There was a study done by the University of Tennessee, a definitive study about class size and what they said was that in first through third grade, if the class size is under 18 those kids stay ahead of everybody else all the way through school, including classes where you might have 25 in the class and co-teachers. Those students lose their gains after a couple years. If you have small classes in those primary years, those most important years, that’s what makes the difference.”
This is the famed STAR experiment, probably the most rigorous experiment in the history of education reform.
Your campaign seized on Romney’s remarks immediately,