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

There are few factors that can be concretely linked, with evidence, to better educational outcomes in primary and secondary students. Of those, the one we are most confident about is small class sizes ...

Entering a third-grade classroom in a high-poverty school, I saw lots of children for early elementary. “How many children do you have?” I asked the teacher. “Today I have 27,” she said. “But I have ...

In a buzzing classroom at Rogers Street Academy this spring, 24 kindergartners were remarkably on task all at once. Teacher Araceli Barroso was focused on two of them. At a small table together, the ...

ELMHURST, IL – Elmhurst parents are making their views known on increasing class sizes in some local schools. They say more than 500 people have signed a petition to that effect. The petition started ...

BUFFALO — Ideal class size has been on legislators’ minds as they recalibrate school funding in the state, and educators say that there is a balance between classes that are too small and those that ...

The New Hyde Park-Garden City Park school board heard extensive public concern over class size at its Monday, March 9, meeting. Parents presented statistics on the benefits of small class sizes in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Araceli Barroso works with students in a 5-year-old bilingual kindergarten class at Rogers Street Academy in Milwaukee on Thursday ...