According to The Telegraphs, Javier Espinoza, education editor, “Class size has very little impact on a child’s quality of education, because teachers tend to stick to their teaching approach regardless of the number of students.” There has been research done to determine why this could be true. Professor John Hattie of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne did 113 studies in the UK, the US & Europe for about 25 years. His research showed just having a smaller class can add 4 months of teaching per year also adding another 2 years for every year for a teacher that has great experience. He stated that having a small class can work by increasing academics but very little due to the fact that teachers aren’t willing to change their teaching habits when the numbers are changed. Also another issue that affects this is the money portion on hiring extra teachers & having extra classrooms if schools are willing to go smaller. Thus this is the loss for having books and supplies to provide for the students to learn. “Whether you have 23 or 24 students or 25, you still need to be able to pay teachers exceedingly well. You still need - if you 're going to teach art, you need to have paint. Otherwise, what 's the point? Teachers need copy paper.” Stated Eva Moskowitz, …show more content…
Yes it does. No matter what we want the best education for students everywhere, some may disagree otherwise due to the budget cost gained or lost. But why not take a chance and try something that can help those have brighter futures for I myself have been in this kind of environment and it has helped me throughout my life I felt that I was able to gain more knowledge and be able to understand, in conclusion class size dose