Poll- how many kids are in your child's class at school?

[ptt]

21 kids in the 3 rd grade class , KatyISD.

[daphne326]

21 kids in my son's 1st grade class - SBISD

[MumHouston]

10-Private

[Dopo]

Just a comment
lower student-teacher ratio doesn't guarantee a better education

A good teacher with 30 students will do a better job than a bad teacher with 5 students

[nana053]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Just a comment
lower student-teacher ratio doesn't guarantee a better education

A good teacher with 30 students will do a better job than a bad teacher with 5 students

While it is true that a good teacher can do a decent job with more students in a class, at the elementary level, it is true that all kids get a better education with 17 or less students in a class.

http://greatlakescenter.org/docs/Pol..._ClassSize.pdf

Considering the body of research as a whole, the following policy recommendations emerge:

Class size is an important determinant of student outcomes, and one that can be directly determined by policy. All else being equal, increasing class sizes will harm student outcomes.

The evidence suggests that increasing class size will harm not only children’s test scores in the short run, but also their long-run human capital formation. Money saved today by increasing class sizes will result in more substantial social and educational costs in the future.

The payoff from class-size reduction is greater for low-income and minority children, while any increases in class size will likely be most harmful to these populations.

http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/ReportFile/1...ull-Report.pdf

Our bottom line finding.

In the earliest K – 12 grades, reducing class size has a high probability of producing a favorable outcome — that is, where the long-term benefits of reducing class size consistently exceed the costs. In the upper grades, on the other hand, reducing class size poses a substantial risk of an unfavorable outcome — that is, where costs may often exceed benefits

[Prey521]

19 in my daughter's 3rd grade class and 20 in my sons k'garten class in New Caney ISD.