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John R. Carroll[_3_]

cavelamb wrote:
wrote:
On Apr 1, 11:59 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:

If you had one teacher for each one or two student in public school
classes, reacting to each student's learning patterns individually,
they'd probably beat the hell out of home schoolers, too. It would
only cost us around $70,000/student/year.

Ed Huntress

Actually there are no reputable studies that have found any
correlation between class size and learning.

Indeed in todays WSJ there is an article about Jaime Escalante who
died this week. The movie " Stand and Deliver " was about his
teaching advanced math to kids in Garfield High School in Los
Angeles. He often had classes with as many as 50 kids. The teachers
union ran him out of the school because he did not support their
efforts to reduce class size.

Dan

Since you mentioned him, he just passed away this week...

On Caesar Chavez Day no less.

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John R. Carroll