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wrote:
To me, I would think class size is important, at least as far as learning
goes. I'm in a private school, and we average about 12-14 kids per class.
I'm sure it's much higher in public schools, making it more difficult for
teachers to manage the students, give more individual attention, grading,
etc. Our typical graduating class is around 90 students.
Phys-L@Phys-L.org writes:
But the number of students who attend private schools is below 10%. This
is
because private schools tend to be smaller than public schools. In TX
public schools are enormous, and studies have shown that when you get over
150 students per cohort that the problems increase quite a lot. So the
size
of public schools may one one factor in the misbehavior problem. If you
divided them into smaller schools they may work a lot better. The ideal
size would have only 150 students in the graduating class. This research
was done in the '70s and nobody seems to pay much attention to it. But
the
middle school my children atteded subdivided the school in separate
sections
of 150 students, while the HS is a huge open campus run almost like a
college.
John M. Clement
Houston, TX