http://educationnext.org/floridas-class-size-amendment-did-it-help-students-learn/ Education Next is a journal of opinion and research about education policy. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:19:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://educationnext.org/floridas-class-size-amendment-did-it-help-students-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-11008 Wally Sun, 23 May 2010 22:34:26 +0000 http://educationnext.org/?p=49634821#comment-11008 It is NOT class size that makes the difference; it is how parents and thus students VALUE education and the EFFORT that the student puts forth to LEARN!. Just look at the classrooms in China, India, Africa, or... and you see HUGE classes with 50 or more students sitting in ROWS listening ATTENTIVELY to the teacher. They learn because they want to. Administrators and teachers in these countries do NOT tolerate the type of disruptive behavior which is the NORM in average US classrooms. They praise actual achievement and do NOT coddle their students so as to not hurt the students' self esteem and they do not subscribe to other psychobabble which predominates in US schools. It is NOT class size that makes the difference; it is how parents and thus students VALUE education and the EFFORT that the student puts forth to LEARN!.
Just look at the classrooms in China, India, Africa, or… and you see HUGE classes with 50 or more students sitting in ROWS listening ATTENTIVELY to the teacher. They learn because they want to.
Administrators and teachers in these countries do NOT tolerate the type of disruptive behavior which is the NORM in average US classrooms. They praise actual achievement and do NOT coddle their students so as to not hurt the students’ self esteem and they do not subscribe to other psychobabble which predominates in US schools.

]]> http://educationnext.org/floridas-class-size-amendment-did-it-help-students-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-10398 Latest study: Reducing class size doesn’t benefit student achievement | Get Schooled Wed, 19 May 2010 12:41:15 +0000 http://educationnext.org/?p=49634821#comment-10398 [...] In an essay in the journal Education Next, Peterson — who is also editor-in-chief of Education Next — offer insights into why this research study does not agree with an earlier study of class size out of Tennessee that found benefits: [...] [...] In an essay in the journal Education Next, Peterson — who is also editor-in-chief of Education Next — offer insights into why this research study does not agree with an earlier study of class size out of Tennessee that found benefits: [...]

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