Sentences with phrase «about class size reduction»

What we have learned about class size reduction in California.

Finally, the Florida information tells us what happens when a state government tries to bring about class size reduction on a large scale, whereas the Tennessee experiment was limited to only a fairly small number of schools and to much larger reductions in class size.

Not exact matches

The famous Tennessee STAR random assignment study evaluated class size reduction, which also produced about a one - third of a standard deviation improvement in achievement for minority students.

But when the legislation passed, the only available evidence about the program consisted of testimony; a dozen or so empirical studies by the program's own staff that used primitive quasi-experimental designs; and the most - cited single study confounded the court - ordered introduction of the program with a simultaneously ordered reduction in class sizes of 40 percent.

Another study found that class - size reduction in Tennessee's K — 3 classrooms increased college enrollment rates by about 6 percentage points among African American students, although no impacts were observed for white students.

Reduction of class size in Tennessee cost roughly $ 12,000 per student, whereas the SCSF voucher intervention cost the foundation about $ 4,200 per student, but reduced costs to the taxpayer by lowering the number of students who required instruction in public schools.

Of the $ 771 million available for the operations portion of the class size reduction program — which pays for the teachers, furniture, instructional materials, and supplies — about $ 611 million was claimed.

But what we're talking about in the U.S. is marginal reductions to class size, going from 30 to 25 students per class, and the benefits versus the costs of such reductions.

Simply force - hiring more teachers isn't going to improve outcomes, and it will reinforce the «good money after bad» mantra about public education when the results of class size reduction aren't as significant as expected.

The new budget proposes about $ 4 billion in cuts to programs like literacy for students with disabilities and limited English proficiency, class - size reduction, and after - school and summer programs.