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axolotl[_2_]

On 4/2/2010 2:30 PM, wrote:
On Apr 1, 11:59 pm, "Ed 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

Back to the initial premise- is there any data to support the thesis
that homeschooling is "better" for the school age population?

Kevin Gallimore