Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maybe your first grader came home excited to tell you about all twenty-seven of her new classmates and you freaked. Maybe you’re ...

A new poll by the Maryland State Education Association finds large class sizes are exacerbating staffing shortages in schools.MSEA said its poll found educators reported that class sizes are ...

Editor’s Note: This version was published in 2004. An updated version is available from 2011. In recent years, reducing class size has gained increased prominence as a school-improvement strategy.

Class sizes throughout Oregon are near their lowest point in years, thanks to a potent combination of declining enrollment in public schools and an infusion of federal pandemic recovery funds, new ...

Class size limits for K-12 schools in Tennessee would no longer be state-regulated under new legislation filed by Sen. Jon Lundberg, R-Bristol, on Tuesday. Instead, decisions about student-teacher ...

Recently I read an article about the failure of New York City schools to prepare students to read. The article highlighted some really dire statistics. As a teacher and union advocate, I cannot say ...

New research casts doubt on the success of Florida’s class-size reduction program as voters weigh a November ballot initiative to roll back the mandate’s more stringent provisions. The study by ...

The perennial, “We have a teacher shortage!” canard has a younger and equally bogus sibling known as, “Children do better in a small class setting!” In fact, lower class size is very often on the list ...