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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.

Oh, come on, Dan. We aren't talking about 15 students versus 30. We're
talking about *one on one* versus mass classes.

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

So, go find yourself some more Jaime Escalantes. I'm sure there are at least
three or four more somewhere in the United States.

But if there were more, there would be no article about him in the WSJ.

You can't design an education system, any more than a business organization,
on the premise that you'll hire Superman.

--
Ed Huntress