This example argues that class sizes should be reduced for a better education system because of academic performance with and without it.
Reducing class size positively impacts the students involvement through deeper relationships, comfort, efficiency and academic performance. These effects all work together to create a good environment for students to thrive in. Although some states have started on this journey it should become federal law.
One reason classes should be reduces is the impact class size has on academic performance.
Academic performance
Public Policy Institute of California, Relationships Between Class Size Reduction, New Teacher and Student Achievement, June 2002 Issue #60, p. 1-2
Class size directly relates to academic performance of students. The smaller the class size, to an extent, the better test scores or skills learned. In a study done by the Public Policy Institute of California, reducing class sizes by ten students positively impacts test scores, especially for low-income children. The academic side of things today have such an impact on students ' futures. With colleges and trade schools, they focus on test scores for …show more content…
In 2014, Washington State reduced class sizes to "no more than 15-17 students" from kindergarten through third grade. But this step should be widened to a federal law. All the facts are here, more efficient, better learning environments and greater academic success. If the United States were to take this on as a federal law, all students of the country would thrive. Students from low-income families would especially flourish from this change says Valerie Strauss from the Washington Post. With more attention and focus on them they get the guidance they need that they might not get at home. Large classes have the opposite impact, the students are blurred together as one body instead as independent
Reducing class size positively impacts the students involvement through deeper relationships, comfort, efficiency and academic performance. These effects all work together to create a good environment for students to thrive in. Although some states have started on this journey it should become federal law.
One reason classes should be reduces is the impact class size has on academic performance.
Academic performance
Public Policy Institute of California, Relationships Between Class Size Reduction, New Teacher and Student Achievement, June 2002 Issue #60, p. 1-2
Class size directly relates to academic performance of students. The smaller the class size, to an extent, the better test scores or skills learned. In a study done by the Public Policy Institute of California, reducing class sizes by ten students positively impacts test scores, especially for low-income children. The academic side of things today have such an impact on students ' futures. With colleges and trade schools, they focus on test scores for …show more content…
In 2014, Washington State reduced class sizes to "no more than 15-17 students" from kindergarten through third grade. But this step should be widened to a federal law. All the facts are here, more efficient, better learning environments and greater academic success. If the United States were to take this on as a federal law, all students of the country would thrive. Students from low-income families would especially flourish from this change says Valerie Strauss from the Washington Post. With more attention and focus on them they get the guidance they need that they might not get at home. Large classes have the opposite impact, the students are blurred together as one body instead as independent