High school math teacher Karen Ebanks poses for a photo outside St. Elizabeth Catholic High School in Thornhill, Ont.In one of her high-school math classes of 18 students this semester, teacher Karen Ebanks has time to glance over shoulders, guide stragglers back onto the path of understanding fractions, lead them to comprehending equations and, in some cases, help shepherd teenagers to graduation.
Few other issues in education get parents and teachers so worked up as class sizes, but the evidence on its effect on achievement in the elementary school years appears to be small and there is limited research on high-school class sizes. Research on the effects of reducing class sizes has been concentrated in the primary grades because that’s where governments have devoted most of their attention. One study from the 1980s showed that reducing class sizes in the early years improved academic achievement for young students, especially those from less advantaged backgrounds.
Harvey Bischof, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, warned that the cost to student achievement would be greater. Class size does not matter “in and of itself,” he said, “but in conjunction with the aggregation of other challenges teachers face, it compounds the difficulty of teaching high school.”
Is this really a question how many of us alumni forgotten what happened when we were in large class size
When I was in school in the 80's 90's class sizes were 30-31 and even split grade 5/6 classes most of us survived
Of course they would say this. Means a smaller work load. Come on its not rocket science
How come education costs have gone up over 30x in 5 decades and literacy hasn’t improved a single percentage?
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