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 ...

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.

On Feb. 21, class size—its impact on learning as well as what configurations work best—was the topic, with readers’ questions answered by Douglas N. Harris, an assistant professor of educational ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 11—Muldoon Elementary School fifth grade teacher Shaw McDonald has spent much of her life in Anchorage schools. She attended ...

Mitt Romney found himself on the opposite side of a skeptical audience on Thursday in Philadelphia, after he seemed to dismiss the impact of class sizes on student achievement. At an event capping a ...

On June 3, in a tremendous victory for New York City children, the Legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that would obligate the city’s public schools to lower class size. This bill was a long time ...

Lansing — Michigan's new state budget features $65 million for a pilot program aimed at shrinking class sizes, following a Detroit News investigation in April that documented crowded classrooms in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City is shrinking the size of classrooms in public schools across the five boroughs as it works to comply with the new state law that lowers class sizes in every grade ...