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10-15-2014, 03:16 PM
Is Bigger Actually Better?
Rand Paul is right to question sacrosanct 'truths' about classroom size and student performance.
By Jean Card
Oct. 14, 2014
Last week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., dared to challenge a long-held sacred “truth” of education: That classes must be small to be good.
At Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, Paul said we should allow technology to take us from the traditional 15-to-30-students-to-one teacher ratio to “a million to one.”
Did you hear teachers’ union members suck in their collective breath? I pictured chalk graffiti on Rand Paul’s house. Rotten apples thrown. Death threats scrawled on the backs of last year’s syllabi.
I loved so many things about this moment, it’s difficult to know where to start.
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read more:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/opinion-blog/2014/10/14/rand-paul-takes-on-class-size-at-vanity-fair-summit
Rand Paul is right to question sacrosanct 'truths' about classroom size and student performance.
By Jean Card
Oct. 14, 2014
Last week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., dared to challenge a long-held sacred “truth” of education: That classes must be small to be good.
At Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, Paul said we should allow technology to take us from the traditional 15-to-30-students-to-one teacher ratio to “a million to one.”
Did you hear teachers’ union members suck in their collective breath? I pictured chalk graffiti on Rand Paul’s house. Rotten apples thrown. Death threats scrawled on the backs of last year’s syllabi.
I loved so many things about this moment, it’s difficult to know where to start.
...
read more:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/opinion-blog/2014/10/14/rand-paul-takes-on-class-size-at-vanity-fair-summit