As New York City public schools welcome students back for the new school year, strict ceilings on class sizes are set to take effect—reducing classes from 20 to 25 students per room over the next five ...

In October, during the final 2012 U.S. presidential debate, the topic of class size came up within the context of global competitiveness. Although the candidates were mainly arguing the benefits of ...

This is not meant to be political... Nor is it meant to make absolute generalizations... Some teachers do well with large class sizes. This happens because they can draw in a large group of students ...

There is now a body of literature questioning the link between small class size and student success. A new study of interactions between different class sizes and more than a dozen other variables ...

The discussion about the importance of class size has been ongoing for decades. While some still argue that class size doesn’t make a noticeable difference in the quality of education, research has ...

Los Angeles science teacher Michele Levin knows she caught a break: She only has about 33 students in each of her classes at Daniel Webster Middle School — pretty small, by district standards. In most ...