First-year writing courses will expand to 17 students next fall, a stark increase from the 12-student cap Duke had in 2021.

The United Federation of Teachers is receiving blame for the under-enrollment crisis and resulting school-budget cuts. James Messerschmidt The so-called “class size” bill awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ...

Maybe your first grader came home excited to tell you about all twenty-seven of her new classmates and you freaked. Maybe you’re considering shelling out for that fancy Montessori school that promises ...

A bill to make class sizes a mandatory topic of bargaining between Oregon school districts and their local teacher unions appears poised to clear a key hurdle in Salem this week. Should the concept ...

The Portland Association of Teachers has removed class size caps — one of the most expensive, publicly popular and politically contentious elements of their asks — from their most recent bargaining ...

Pete Grebner remembers what it was like to juggle a Como High School classroom with too many students, conducting chemistry lessons during which half the room did lab work while the other half read ...

A new law to reduce class size in New York City has large support among families, but early tensions could signal a turbulent political road ahead. By Troy Closson When lawmakers forced New York City ...

Correction: In a previous version of this article class size numbers for the four schools were mixed up. The phrase "common core" was used, however, the term should be just core. Also Kim Neal, ...

When the Milwaukee School Board approved a class size policy in 1995, it was with the intention to continue lowering class sizes in future years. Thirty years later, the school district is operating ...

As a strike looms, the Chicago Teachers Union held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to call attention to one of its biggest issues: a demand for lower class sizes. The press conference was held ...

Proliferating metrics and rankings in recent decades have, for better or worse, reshaped the priorities of universities around the world. Despite this “metric tide”, Australian universities provide ...