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How Education Powers the World Show 31 with Host Buffie Williams - Classroom Size in K-12 - Does It Matter?
Season 1 Episode 31
In this podcast, Buffie Williams will be sharing her knowledge about the field of education and wellness. Buffie will connect you with how education powers the world, discuss the restructuring of schools and the individualized education process (IEP) process, and provide a bi-monthly reading of our teen comic book series that tackles issues that youth face daily.
Reducing class size has become a perennial education improvement strategy, often popular with teachers and parents for its ability to give teachers more individual instructional time with students. Yet as states and districts struggle with tight budgets, more policymakers and researchers have begun to turn away from straight class-size reduction in favor of other methods to increase individual instruction time, such as restructured class formats, co-teaching, and distance learning.
~Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. (2011, July 1). Class Size. Education Week. Retrieved Month Day, Year from http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/class-size/
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