---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sara g <saragabai@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Education experts disagree on importance of school class size but they are talking about "big" classes of 23, not of 40.... Margie wrote: > Education experts disagree on importance of school class size > By Kevin Simpson - The Denver Post > > When Greg Sumlin looks at the incoming kindergarten class at East > Elementary School in Littleton, he sees a group of English learners who > need immediate, intensive instruction — in small classes where teachers can > give them individual attention. > > Then he looks at this year's first-graders, calculates his staffing and > crunches the numbers: although these kids also have high needs, three > classrooms of 16 or 17 will have to be shoe-horned into two second-grade > classes of 23. > > It's a vexing academic sudoku that principals tackle — and teachers must > adapt to — as schools try to line up budgets, staff and attendance > projections in pursuit of an elusive educational sweet spot: effective > class size. > > * To read the whole article, go to - > http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20720013/education-experts-disagree-importance-school-class-size ************************************** ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** David Lloyd: ETNI founder & manager http://david.greenlloyd.com ***************************************