It's culture, not just class size

In his Blowback, "Stop cheering on charter schools," Mathew C. Taylor mentions California's high teacher-student ratios as problematic for the state. Other union leaders and Los Angeles school administrators also needle teachers with the ever-looming threat of increasing class size. Then someone who does "studies" declares that class size is not a factor in learning, and the arguments begin.

By Pamela Felcher

June 20, 2008