Here’s an interesting situation: in my school, we’re going to be cutting one section out of our third grade, going from four teachers down to three. The reason is not what you’d expect (budget cuts), but instead, it is based on our superintendent’s belief that research has not shown that smaller class sizes benefit students except in K-2 classrooms. So I throw this out to all of my readers as an honest question: Does class size matter in third grade? Is there any research you’ve seen that would answer that question one way or another?
Obviously, as a third grade teacher, I can’t help but believe that class size matters a great deal in more than just kindergarten through second grade. The Google searches I’ve done have taken me to a variety of fuzzy articles that are more public interest pieces than academic studies… hence my request for serious links (taking either position) from anyone who knows of any!
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